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99.

12-6-54, cont.  Henry Bridge, Grand Canal, KD., cont.

Apanteles pallipes  ♂︎.
Earinus  ♀︎.
Blacus longipennis  ♀︎, ant. 17.
Opius funebris, ♂︎, ant. 21, 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 19-20.
Opius cf. annulatus miki, n.sp. (nobis olim annulicornis m. non Thomson)  ♀︎. ant. 27.
Alysia tipulae, dark ♀︎, ant. 35.
Pentapleura angustula  ♀︎: not mtd.
Aspilota daemon - 2 mtd. ant. 18, 2♀︎♀︎ & 5 others = A. fuscescens?  ♂︎, ant. 24.
A.  ♀︎, ant. 22:  fits mammilata best, but antennae very elongate & slender!
A. (S.) concolor?  ♂︎, ant. 19.
A. (S.) rudenticornis?  ♀︎, ant. 18.
Dacnusa areolaris, maculipes, &c.  10:  1 mtd. = areolaris ♂︎, ant. 20, very wide head!
D. elegantula:  not mtd.
D. aphanta?  not mtd.
D. persimilis  ♀︎, ant. 26.
Monoctonus caricis  ♂︎ not mtd.
Aphidius 6:  3 mounted = Aph. ervi?  3♀︎♀︎, ant. 18, 19, 19.
Proctos  3 } none mtd.
Chalcids  2 } none mtd.
Beetles  2: 1 mtd. = 
Dipteron:  metallic green = 
Grasshopper  ♀︎ = 
Sawflies  3.  Dolerus picipes ♀︎.  
Pontania  ♀︎
P.?  ♀︎


Monday 13th June 1954.

A chilly day, wind NW., but with considerable sunbursts.  In afternoon George drove me & Daisy to Judy's Pinch & we all walked up the lane to Mount Seskin & back to car.  In lane George spotted a very fine ♀︎ Bombus distinuendus in lane & we saw a colony of Pemphredon on stump.


100.

16th June 1954 - erroneously labelled "12"! AWS.

A fine breezy morning, wind SW., turning dull about 1 P.M. with drizzle thence all afternoon till 6.30 when a trough of low pressure passed & sun came out.

Warmer than of late, but not so hot & damp as on 15th.

In afternoon we drove to the Brittas Ponds & walked up to Lynch Park & back in slight drizzle.  Collected with sucker off Ash & other herbage on sheltered SW. side of the lane at about 900 feet.  On return stopped to look at a cream-flowered form of the Bush Vetch (Vicia sepium) at about 1,000 feet 1/8 mile below (S. of) the angle wall & pillar of Lynch Park, & saw & watched for several minutes a worker Bombus pratorum collecting from flowers of the vetch.  See note on supposed ♀︎ of this Bumble Bee seen at about same height on Dowry (about 1 mile SE. of where we stood) on 1st June (p.88 antea).

Earlier in the day I had watched a ☿ of Bombus pratorum in the back garden of 14 Clareville Road very bush at the flowers of Thalictrum flavum & a week earlier had watched a similar ☿ in same garden at flowers of Rubus nessensis (= suberectus).

The above & the Dowry record tend to support R.C. Faris's idea that this species is spreading but one cannot be certain, as formerly we were not on the look out for it.  Nevertheless I could not have missed it in the garden for 29 years, 1920-1949!