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89.

1.6.54, cont.   Manor Kilbride, Co. WI.
  
Taken at 2.   
 
Anteon  ♂︎.
Cryptinids (Hemiteles, Phygadeuon, Leptocryptus, &c.)  6♂︎♂︎.  None mtd.
Phytodiaetus segmentator  ♂︎, ant. 31.  Var. gelitorius Thunb.
Homocidus dimidiatus?  ♂︎, ant. 23.
H. obscuripes  ♂︎, not mtd.
Promethes pulchellus  1♂︎, not mtd.
P. montanus  ♂︎, not mtd.
Stenomacrus ventralis  2♀︎♀︎: not mtd.
St. merula  ♀︎, ant. 25. 
Proclitus mesoxanthus?  ♀︎, ant. 19.
Plectiscus communis  ♀︎, ant. 21.
Aperileptus obliquus  ♂︎ (& ?♀︎):  ant. both 21.
Rogas circumscriptus complex  ♂︎, ant. 41.
Apanteles sp.  ♂︎, not mtd.
Euphorus fulvipes  2: not mtd.
E. cf. pallipes?  small (♂︎?) with very slender elongate ant., ant. 22;  radius short & strongly curved.
Leiophron edentatus  ♀︎, ant. 26.
Opius spp.  3♂︎♂︎:  none mtd.
Aspilota cf. clara  ♂︎: not mtd.
A. (Synaldis) filicornis?  ♀︎, ant. 17.
Dacnusa eros, var. fuscitarsis  (2♀︎♀︎?), smaller ant. 40;  larger ant. 42.
D. areolaris group:  including pubescens (1♀︎);  maculipes;  laevipectus?;  & several very small dark-legged areolaris.
Ephedrus lacertosus  ♀︎, ant. 11.
Aphidius spp.  1♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎: none mtd.
Proctos  4:  3 mtd. = Leptorhaptus flavidicornis?  ♀︎.
Aclista analis?  ♀︎.
Chalcids  2: not mtd.
Dipteron 1 = 

 
90. 

2nd June 1954.

Another very fine sunny day with strong, but not so cold, NE. wind.  In afternoon drove to the old sandpit on "The Woolpack Road" near Arthurstown, where collected with R.L. Coe on 10.8.1952, & swept here & there in the old workings for an hour & a half - particularly around a swampy pool filled with Juncus, Carex & Glyceria fluitans, & Watercress, Co. KD.

Arthurstown, Co. KD.  3.30-5.0 P.M.

Aculeates very abundant, the commonest being Halictus rubicundus.  Also seen or taken:  Bombus lapidarius & agrorum, Andrena wilkella, A. nigroaenea, Nomada marshamella & ruficornis, Sphecodes 2 spp. = affinis ♀︎ & divisus ♀︎!, & Pompilus gibbus? ♂︎
Sawflies.  Tom. luteiventris ♀︎ & Selandria serva ♂︎ at pool.
Diptera.  Bombylius canescens √, &c., & a curious minute species with stout moniliform antennae, whitish wings with only 2 longitudinal veins = Aphid?
Phygadeuon sp.  ♀︎, not mtd.
Promethes dorsalis  ♂︎ not mtd.
Zootrephus sp.  ♂︎ & ♀︎:  ♀︎ only mtd., ant. 20.
Homocidus elegans  ♂︎, ant. 23.
Opius caesus  ♂︎: first of season!
Aspilota (S.) temporalis  ♂︎, ant. 23.
Dacnusa areolaris group  9: none mtd.
D. pubescens  ♂︎: not mtd.
D. (Gyrocampa)  2♂︎♂︎ rufipes miki, ant. both 25.  This may be only a var. of affinis but the anal (?) cross vein of hind wings seen +/- missing!  AWS. 1965.
D. cyclops  ♂︎, ant. 28:  ? head more transverse than usual!
Aphidius renominatus  ♀︎: not mtd.
Procto.  1, Scelionid = 
Chalcid  1 = 
Diptera - see above:  Bombylius canescens!