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162.

12.7.54, cont.  Falls of Shin, cont. 

Proctos 10: only one Diapriid mtd. = Basalys "sp.2 ♂︎ miki! Ant. 14
Chalcids  8. 
Diptera  4: 2 mtd. = Leptogaster guttiventris Zett.?  One nearly twice the size of others.
Hemiptera 1 =
Beetles: none mtd.


13th July 1954. 

Left Lairg by 7.45 trailn & arrived at Ballanluig about 2.30.  Spent 2 hours at Ballinluig & in to Aberfeldy by 4.45 train:  & thence by bus to Lawers where arrived, late, at 6.30 PM.  While at Ballinluig spent 1 1/4 hours sweeping by path on right bank of the R. Tummel just above the Tummel Bridge as on 28th June (p.124.)

Insects taken on rt. bank of Tummel:  3.0-4.15 P.M.
[73 mtd. & these labelled 5.10.1963.]

Sawflies 2:  Tenthredo balteata ♀︎.  Nematine ♀︎.
Myrmica ruginodis  dealated ♀︎, 2☿☿
Anteon  3♂︎♂︎: none mtd.
Epitomus proximus, small ♀︎, ant. 21.
Cryptinids, 20 including some very small ♂︎ Hemiteles:  only 5 mtd.
= Phygadeuon sp.  ♀︎, ant. 19
Pezomachus sp.  ♀︎, ant. 19;  also a ♂︎, perhaps same sp.:  winged!
Hemiteles cf. gracilis  ♀︎, ant. 18.
H. apertus?  ♂︎, ant. 21:  paler than usual?


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13.7.54, cont.  Ballinluig, Perthshire, Cont.

Pimpla cf. vesicaria Ratz.  ♂︎, very slender;  ant. 23., hind coxae black!!
Perilissus filicornis  ♂︎, ant. 42.
Bassus "tricinctus" √, ant. 20.
Stenomacrus 3 incuding a ♀︎ Nerateles; only 2 mtd. = 
St. cf. minutus  ♂︎, ant. 19.
St. (Neurateles) pusillus Holgrm.  ♀︎, ant. 20.
Campoplegid:  not mtd.
Plectiscids 4 = Proclitus praetor Hal.  ♂︎, ant. 26.
Helictes sp.  ♂︎, ant. 19.
Plectiscus sp.  ♂︎, ant. 22.
Dialipsis crassipes {fide J.F.P.}  ♀︎, ant. 21:  head large, temples long, terebra = abd., legs v. stout, &c.
Bracon cf. rivalis miki  ♂︎;  small, dark, ♂︎, ant. 32?
Colastes braconius  1♂︎ not mtd., 1♀︎, ant. 25.
Colastes hariolator  ♀︎, ant. 36.
Rogas irregularis: not mtd.
Apanteles:  not mtd.
Microplitis speculator  ♀︎ (labelled Oct. 57.)
Euphorus cf. pallipes  ♀︎, ant. 23.
Meteorus cinctellus  ♀︎, ant. 26.
Eubadizon extensor  ♂︎, ant. 39.
Blacus maculipes  3♂︎♂︎, ant. 21, 21 & 22;  1♀︎, ant. 20.
B. diversicornis  1♂︎, ant. 21.
Opius xanthogaster m.  ♂︎, ant. 34.
O. cf. communis m.  2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 23.
O. cf. levis  ♂︎, ant. 24 (but possibly only a rather dark legged ♂︎ of communis!)
Aphaereta tenuicornis Nixon:  ♀︎, ant. 23.
Phaenocarpa tacita Stelfox:  ♀︎, ant. 21.
Alloea contract  ♂︎: not mtd.