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117.

26.6.54, cont.  Ben Lawers & N. Corrie

& down N. side of the gully down which stream flows to the Lochan, along beneath the big cliff (where had aft. tea) & along the cliffs W. of the Lochan & so home via the Lawers Burn at 6.50 P.M.  A cruel day, but dry after 5 P.M. & although I never put on my "mac" I was dry on reaching the hotel.


27th June 1954 (Sunday). 

Wet & drizzly all forenoon with strong cold N. wind.  After drizzle cleared at noon went into glen below road at Lawers & collected the following with sucker from beneath leaves of beech: = 1

Taken at 1.  Glen, Lawers, MP. 12 noon-12-50.
[The few specimens taken at 1 have disappeared: they were of no importance & may have been included with those taken at station 2 as the locality is the same.  I cannot remember! A.W.S. December 1954.]


Taken at 2.  Swept in Glen from road to wooden bridge over the tributary to Lawers Burn, Lawers, MP. 2.30-3.50 PM.
[65 mounted from 2 & these labelled Dec. 1954.]

Stenichneumon ochropis  ♂︎, ant. 36.
Cryptinids:  12.  Stilpnus, Hemiteles, &c.:  3 only mounted, as follows:-
Hemiteles sp.  ♀︎, ant. 21.
H.(?) sp.  small ♀︎, ant. 18.
Phygadeuon(?) sp.  ♂︎, white mandibles, &c., ant. 27.
Promethes pulchellus  ♂︎ not mtd.
Homocidus pulcher  2♂︎♂︎, not mtd.
Orthocentrus protuberans  2♀︎♀︎: not mtd.


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27.6.54 (2), cont.  Lawers, MP., cont.

Stenomacrus (cf. Neurateles) laevissisimus miki  ♀︎, ant. 20:  cf. ♀︎ taken here on (2) 20.7.1952.
St. affinis var. B.  (A.W.S. & H.W. Daltry notes 1953!)  ♂︎ (ant. 23);  ♀︎ (ant. 21).
Polyblastus cf. arenatus Holmgr.  ♂︎, ant. 29.
Monoblastus sp. parasitic on Lygaeonematus laricis ♀︎, ant. 31.
Mesoleius?  ♀︎, ant. 28.
Campoplegid ♀︎ = Angitia or Anilasta?, ant. 28.
Mesochorus 2 (1 very small ♂︎;  1♀︎):  only the ♂︎ mtd., ant. 25 = 
Helictes sp.  ♂︎, ant. broken.
H. pilicornis Th.  ♂︎, ant. 28.
Plectiscus cf. collaris Grav.?  ♀︎, very nice!  Ant. 23.
Plectiscus communis?  small ♀︎, ant. 19.
Proclitus fulvicornis  ♂︎, ant. 19.
Bracon satanas  ♀︎, ant. 35.
Colastes braconius  ♀︎: not mtd.
Apanteles cf. fraternus  ♂︎.
Euphorus cf. pallipes  2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 24.
E. intactus Hal.  (♂︎?), ant. 16.
Blacus hastatus  ♀︎, ant. 17.
Opius 10 - only 7 mtd!, including O. xanthoaster ♂︎ - this mounted, ant. 31, abd. rather dark! & ♀︎;  O. (B.) procerus ♂︎, not mtd.
O. cf. fuscitarsis miki (= instabilis var.1)?  ♂︎, ant. 25.
O. sp.?  +/- smooth post petiole otherwise near stenops.  1♂︎ & 1♀︎ (? same species), ant. 26 (both).
O. stenops?  ♂︎, ant. 23.
O. communis?  ♀︎, ant. 23.
O. levis?  ♂︎, ant. 24.
Pentapleura pumilio  2 small dark-legged ♀︎; not mounted.
Adelura dictynna  1 lovely ♀︎, ant. 50.
Tanycarpa mitis Stelfox, ♂︎, ant. 31.
Phaenocarpa ruficeps  5♂︎♂︎ & Ph. picinervis  ♂︎: none mtd.
Aspilota tenuipes miki.  ♀︎, ant. 19.
A. cf. fuscescens?  ♀︎, ant. 18.  Also ♂︎? see below.
A. fuscescens?  ♂︎, ant. 22, dimple +/- obsolete.
A. cf. nemoralis m.  ♀︎, ant. 17.
A. sordipes m.?  ♂︎ & ♀︎, ant. 23 & 20.
A. sp.?  small ♀︎, long ant. 19.
A. fuscicornis Hal.  3♂︎♂︎, ant. 18, 19 & 20.
A. sp. near fraudatrix m.  ♀︎, ant. 16.
A. leucephala m.  ♂︎, ant. 21.
A. (Synaldis) temporalis miki  ♀︎, ant. 17.