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7.7.54, cont.  Far Out-Head, cont.

Turning S. from the western point over flatissh coastal pasture with much grass & sedge (as just mentioned) we were delighted to find Primula scotica in flower & plentiful growing in a more closed association than we had previously seen it.  This ended our notes & we came straight home.  The following insects seen or swept during the day & all labelled "Far Out Head" though most taken on the area of Marram Grass on th E. side & within two miles of Sango Bay.

Far Out Head, Durness.
[45 insects mtd., but not labelled until 16.9.1963.]

Bombus lucorum & lapidarius ♀︎♀︎ seen.
Anteon  3♂︎♂︎ = 
Bethylus fuscicornis ♀︎ amongst Marram Grass.
Dicaelotus  ♂︎, ant. 27 = D. sp.?
Cryptinids 10:  4 only mtd. = Atractodes sp.  ♀︎, ant. 27:  hind femora black.
Atractodes  small sp.? ♀︎, ant. 26:  hind femora red.
Phygadeuon? sp.  ♀︎, ant. 18.
Phygadeuonid sp.?  ♂︎, ant. 22.
Mesoleptus? sp.  ♀︎, ant. 43.
Perilissus filicornis  small ♂︎, ant. 44.
Stenomacrus intermedius  ♀︎, ant. 29.
Cteniscid  ♂︎, ant. 28 = 
Promethes pulchellus  ♀︎, ant. 23.
Promethes sulcator  ♂︎, ant. 27.
Campoplegids ca. 15:  only 4 mtd. = Nepiera concinna  ♂︎, ant. 31;  2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 30.
Porizonid  ♂︎, ant. 31 = 


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7.7.54, cont.  Far Out Head, cont.

Bracon  ♂︎:  very interesting = This is clearly an abnormal (?injured in pupa) ♂︎ of B. satanas, with ocellar area sunk, notauli abnormally developed, &c.  Ant. 39.
Apanteles 4 = pallipes, 3♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎, but there is no central keel on propodeum!
Diospilus, 2♂︎♂︎ = These ♂︎♂︎ are not identical!  One has smooth tergite 1, the other rugose!  Also there are differences in radius & other details:  ant. 21 (rugose tergite 1) & ant. 22 (smooth tergite 1.)
Opius irregularis, ♀︎, ant. 24:  a very nice, but small example:  tergite 2 virtually smooth.
Alysia manducator, ♀︎, small, ant. 30.
Pentapleura pumilio  2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎, small & dark, ant. 26, 26 & 18.
Phaenocarpa conspurcator  ♀︎, ant. 26.
Aspilota 4, including one very very minute ♂︎ Synaldis sp.?, ant. 17: concolor?
A. (S.) concolor?  ♂︎, ant. 20.
A. concinna Hal.  ♂︎, ant. 22.
A. rubripes  ♀︎, ant. 16.
Dacnusa areolaris group 15, including maculipes.  None mtd.
D. (G.) affinis  ♀︎, ant. 22.
Coelinius n. sp. Sligo:  ♂︎, ant. 38.
Aphidius spp. 4 = A. constrictus (N.) Hal.  2♂︎♂︎, one large, one minute & teneral (damaged!), ant. both 16.
A. sp.?  ♂︎, ant. 17.
A. sp.?  ♂︎, ant. 18.
Proctos 16:  only one large "Platygater" mtd. = 
Chalcids 16 - only these 3 mtd., including 3 large ♂︎♂︎ taken in a swampy sand area.  The 3 large ♂︎♂︎ labelled Oct. 57 & sent to Graham = Callimomus (Torymus) purpurascens (Boheman) Thoms. fide Graham, in litt. 14 Feb. '58.
Cynipids 10: none mtd.
Diptera: none mtd.
Hemiptera  1 black, brachypterous, mtd. = 
Beetles:  Red brown sandhill chafer in packet with Diptera of 8.7.54.