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27/5/26. Glen of Imaal, marsh by the bridge over the Slaney near Davidstown, Co. WI. AWS.
NB. [[underlined]] Salia aurita [[/underlined]] in good flower here & up to 1,200 ft by Camarahill brook! A dull mild day with misty rain afterwards. Took all below by sweeping willows &c, rushes &c.
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[[underlined]] Andrena albicans [[/underlined]] several [[2 male symbols]] flying round willow
Tenthredinidae
[[underlined]] Dolerus bimaculatus [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] [[checkmark]] RCLP, on rushes or sedges.
[[underlined]] Pontania leucosticta [[/underlined]] 2 [[male symbol]] [[checkmark]] RCLP at willows.
[[underlined]] Euura saliceti [[/underlined]] 2 [[2 male symbols]] [[checkmark]] RCLP at willows.
[[underlined]] Pteronidea curtispina [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[male symbol]] ("very doubtful : might be [[underlined]] polyspila [[/underlined]] on some characters" RCLP.)
[[underlined]] Tomostethus luteiventris [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]]. [[checkmark]] RCLP.
Ichneumonidae. on willows

[[underlined]] Ctenistes consobrinus [[/underlined]] Holyr [[male symbol]], [[underlined]] fide [[/underlined]] G. J. Kerrech, Sept. 1950

NB very good ground along Slaney at Ballyhalbrook Bridge

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30/5/26. Powerscourt, Co. WI. A very stormy day with a good deal of hot sun till storm burst at 3 p.m.
[[circled]] 1 [[/circled]] Rushy marsh on hillside along Tinnahinch avenue, below House.
[[circled]] 2 [[/circled]] Same avenue, where main av. from House joins.
[[circled]] 3 [[/circled]] Lower end of Deerpark.
[[underlined]] Nysson spinosus [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] [[checkmark]] R.C.L.P. on leaf of Petasite by river at 2. 
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Tenthredella ferruginea, 1 [[male symbol]] [[checkmark]] RCLP. at 1 [[underlined]] Teathredo arcuata [[/underlined]], [[2 male symbols]] only at 2.
[[underlined]] Dolerus gessneri [[/underlined]] [[checkmark]] R.C.L.P. 11 [[2 male symbols]] 3 [[2 female symbols]] at 3. [[underlined]] Dolerus bimaculatus [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] at 3 as usual.
[[underlined]] Athalia lineolata [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] [[checkmark]] RCLP.
[[underlined]] Nematus luteus [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] [[checkmark]] RCLP. at 3, but ? on rushes or hawthorn or somát?
[[insertion]] "Has some trace of [[underlined]] bilincatus [[/underlined]] characters" RCLP. [[/insertion]]
[[insertion]] This [[female symbol]] was reexamined by R. B. Benson in March 1936 & [[underlined]] in lett. [[/underlined]] A.W.S. [[/insertion]]
dated 19.3.36 he calls this [[udnerlined]] N. luteus [[/underlined]] v. [[underlined]] antennatus [[/underlined]] Cam. but suggests that it is really a distinct species from [[underlined]] lutens [[/underlined]], adding that all [[Scotted?]] specimens have "three leech marks on the thorax, while all the English specimens have not" A.W.S.

30/5/26. Marsh, between roads, at Enniskerry, Co. WI. A.W.S.
[[udnerlined]] Tomostethus luteiventris [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] [[checkmark]] RCLP.