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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. 118. 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.