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77. 22-5-54, cont. Clara, WI., cont. Taken at 1, cont. Dacnusa areolaris & laevipectus: ♂︎ & ♀︎ of former: 2♀︎♀︎ of latter, not mtd. Dyscritulus planiceps ♂︎, ant. 26. Proctos. 3: 2 mtd. = a minute Scelionid, ant. bitten off = Teleas? & Cryptoserphus aculeator ♂︎. Chalcids 6: not mtd. Cynipids 7, not mtd. Diptera 4: only 1 mtd.= Beetles 2: not mtd. Taken at 2 (2.0 till 4.30 PM.) Dryinid ♂︎♂︎ 3 = Anteon sp. 2 smaller ♂︎♂︎ & A. sp. 1 larger ♂︎. Cryptinids 4 = Hemiteles sp. ♂︎, ant. 22. H. sp. ♀︎, ant 22. Phygadeuonid ♂︎, red abd. ant. 25 = Phygadeuonid ♂︎, ant. 23 (some taken at 1) = Exochus decoratus ♂︎, ant. 28. ♂︎♀︎ Exochinid of Gen. et sp.n. (♂︎?) ant. 33, - has complete notauli meeting in punctured space! Also a ♀︎ (small) taken at Clara, WI on 3.6.1932: it is pinned & has 28 seg. antennae! AWS. 1965. cf. with speciman taken at Athdown, WI. on (1) 11.9.1949. Picrostigeus recticauda ♀︎, ant. 29; also a larger ♂︎ of apparently same species, ant. 28 with incomplete areolet in right wing. Stenomacrus ventralis 2♀︎♀︎: not mtd. St. ridibundus, ♀︎, ant. 24. Promethes cognatus ♂︎, ant 24; ♀︎ ant. 25. Gen et. sp.? 1♀︎ Campoplegid ♂︎ = Angitia? ♂︎ ant. 28. Plectiscids 2 = Aperileptus albipalpis or obliquus? 2♀︎♀︎, small, ant. 20; larger, ant. 21. 78. 22.5.54 (2) cont. Clara, WI, cont. Bracon crassiceps Thomson, ♀, ant 31. ? same species as hylobii Ratz. which O'Mahony bred from cocoons under bark in St. Annes, Dublin & A.M. Gwynn bred at Fernborough Lab. & I have 4♀︎♀︎ in coll. AWS. Fits description almost perfectly! & in all critical ways!! New to Brit. Isles, I believe. AWS. 9/12/1965 B. communis, miki. ♂︎, ant. 30. B. osculator? ♂︎, ant. 28: very like a small communis, but wings not dark! Bathystomus: vernalis miki, ♀︎, ant. only 25-seg. - a small example! Rogas: a ♂︎ & a ♀︎ of the circumscriptus complex! ♂︎ ant. 41; ♀︎ ant. 38, the latter has pale legs & dark abdoman, the ♂︎ has fuscous hind femora. Ascogaster consobrina (?♂︎), ant. 33 Apantites fraternus? ♂︎. Aspilota fuscescens, var. nigrescens? ♂︎, ant. 24 & A. tumida ♀︎, ant. 19. Dacnusa areoloris 6 (♂︎ & ♀︎). Aphidius sp. 2♂︎♂︎. Proctos. 7: 3 mtd. = Disogmus basalis Thom. ♂︎ with no trace of notauli whatever! Cryptoserpheus aculeator ♂︎. Cryptoserphrus laricis Hal.? large ♂︎. Chalcids 9. Cynipid: 1 very minute = Beetles 3 (? off Carex paniculata) = 22.5.54 cont. Before starting out in the morning I looked in my sawfly pot in motor house & found a fine ♂︎ Cimbex femorata had emerged. This must have come from larva taken on birch at Ballinascorney Ho. Co. DU. on 12th Aug. 1953. 25th May. Took a ♀︎ Hemiteles sp. on window in dining room, 14 Clareville Rd, at 1.30 P.M.