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65. 10th May 1954. A most perfect day: mainly sunny & with warm air for the first time really since January! Clouds SW; wind S. to SE., fresh but not cold. In afternoon drove to Bohernabreena & left car at gate of waterworks & walked up to lodge below lower dam & back to car - 3 till 4.30 P.M. Collected here & there by sweeping, but mainly under trees & along river near where left car. More insects out than previously seen this year & the following swept. Bohernabreena, Co. DU. Dicaelotus (Deloglyptus) punctiventris Thoms. ♀︎ running on rotten stump! Ant. 22. "M.D.S." Hemiteles or Phygadeuon 4♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎: only 1 (♂︎) mounted: ant. 21 = Picrostigeus cf. recticauda ♂︎, ant. 28. Campoplegid ♂︎: not mtd. Apanteles pallipes 3♂︎♂︎. Perilitus viduatus miki: small black ♂︎, ant. 21. Aspilota (Synaldis) ♀︎, ant. 19, short ant. with moniliform apical segments: crassicornis rather than rudenticornis! A. (S.) filicornis m.? ♂︎, ant. 23: dark legs. Dacnusa areolaris, laevipectus & maculipes - see below 8 (♂︎ & ♀︎): [[strikethrough]] none [[/strikethrough]] one mtd. D. maculipes 1♂︎, ant. 21. D. sp.? (ovalis group?) ♂︎, ant. 26, dark legs: might come near tamiris Nixon Monoctonus caricis 2♀︎♀︎ not mtd. Aphidius sp. 5♂︎♂︎, none mtd. Proctos 6: none mtd. Chalcids 3: none mtd. Cynipids 2: not mtd. Beetles 6 Cis? ♂︎ & ♀︎ in cop. under fungus on stump. Also a ♀︎ Hylecoetus dermestoides! 66. 11th & 12th May 1954. Warm, little or no wind, rain or drizzle all day on 11th, much of the night, all day on 12th till 6 P.M. then again from 11 P.M. till breakfast time. 13th May. A very lovely day, warm, with much hot sun, wind west & fresh at times - expecially at Bohernabreena & up Glenasmole. In afternoon drove to gate of waterworks & left car - arriving at 2.30 P.M. Left for home at 4.40. J.P. Brunker with us. Collected in two areas as follows:- 1 = Under trees at gate lodge where left car, as on 10th May. 2.30-3.30. These labelled "Bohernabreena". 2 = Under trees between 2nd lodge & the lower dam, mainly between road up dam & the river; but a few taken on edge of scrub in field on W. side of glen 1/8 mile below dam. These labelled "Glenasmole" 4 till 4.30 P.M. Taken at 1. Bohernabreena, Co. DU. Bethylus fuscicornis ♀︎ & another minute smooth & polished Bethylid taken by Daisy on a stump = Cephalonomia formiciformis Wwd. ♀︎: this ex. confirmed by O.W. Richards, in ltt. dated 26.5.1954. Myrmica laevinodis & Leptothorax acervorum ☿☿ on a stump. Hemiteles & Phygadeuon spp. 8 small ♂︎♂︎: none mtd. Stenomacrus curvulus ♂︎, ant. 23: NB. Some of my specimens (apparently all ref. to curvulus!) have an areolet, some not; some have 3rd abscissa of radius straight & some curved! AWS. 1965. Apanteles [[strikethrough]] fulvipes [[/strikethrough]] pallipes group: same as taken here on 10th May: 3♂︎♂︎ = pallipes! Alloea contracta ♀︎, ant. 20. Aspilota cf. fuscescens 2♂︎♂︎: not mtd. Aspilota fuscicornis ♂︎ & ♀︎, not mtd. A. (Synaldis) spp. 3♂︎♂︎ probably all concolor. Not mtd.