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[[underlined]] 23rd April 1927. [[/underlined]] Very windy with occasional sun : cold. Morning: Rathdrum, below station, right bank of river, as usual! Co. WI. [[underlined]] Bombus lucorum [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] agrorum [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] [[underlined]] Psithyrus distinctus [[/underlined]] several [[2 female symbols]] on Taraxacum! [[underlined]] Andrena albicans [[/underlined]] a few [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]]. " [[Ditto for: Andrena]] minutula 1 [[female sign]], seen on Dandelion. [[underlined]] Halictus calceatus [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] on " " [[Dittos for: Dandelion]]. [[line]] Dolerus sp.? [[checkmark]] RCLP. 2 [[2 male symbols]] in marsh below viaduct. See RCLP's letter dated 30.X.27. " [[Ditto for: Dolerus]] aeneus 1 [[male symbol]] [[checkmark]] RCLP. ? where taken. Ichneumon [[underlined]] Acanthocnemus nigricans [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] 1 black & white over spring march by river above viadaduct. [[line across page]] Aft. Marsh behind sulphur mines, above Avoca. [[underlined]] Vespa rufa [[/underlined]] 1 [[female sign]]. [[underlined]] Bombus lucorum, agrorum [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] muscorum [[/underlined]] (1) [[2 female symbols]]. [[underlined]] Andrena albicans [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]]. [[underlined]] Dolerus madidus [[/checkmark]] [[checkmark]] R.C.L.P. 1 [[male symbol]]. " [[Ditto for: Dolerus]] sp. ? [[insertion]] ^ 1 [[male symbol]] [[/insertion]] [[overwritten]] Mellinus [[?]] [[/overwritten]] R.C.L.P. see letter dated 30. X '27. [[male symbol]] = [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] oblangus [[/underlined]] Proctotypid 1 [[end page]] [[start page]] 85. 24th April 1927. Storm & clouds from SW all day! Picked up a few beetles on sandhills & Braconids & Proctotypids in salt pools on rocks N. of Kynoch's. [[line across page]] 25th April 1927. Storm continues but a good deal of sun in aft. : but too windy for [[owt?]]. Webb's Glen & marsh at N. end of Kynock's, Arklow, WI. Dolerus aeneus [[checkmark]] RCLP. 1 [[female symbol]], amongst [[ruhes?]] at foot of glen. [[underlined]] Pontania viminalis [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] ? RCLP. [[underlined]] Pontania [[/underlined]] sp.? 1 [[male symbol]] RCLP. [[underlined]] Blennocampa tenicacornis [[/underlined]] [[checkmark]] RCLP. 1 [[female symbol]] [[side note applying to above]] Beaten of [[underlined]] Salix cinerea [[/underlined]] bushs at foot of glen! [[/side note]] [[underlined]] Icneumonidae &c at same place as last! [[line across page]] Ennis Co. CL. Collected by R. A. Phillips. 21.4.27. [[underlined]] Halictus rubicundus, H. freygessneri [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] A. albicans [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] Ennistymon, Co. CL. R.A.P. 23.4.27. [[underlined]] Halictus rubicundus, Andrena albicans [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]]. [[underlined]] Andrena cineraria [[/underlined]] fresh [[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]], [[underlined]] A. jacobi [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] var [[underlined]] scotica [[/underlined]].
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@siobhanleachman - I've put together this document of bee species names to help other volunteers. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E_Zc6xt1giFN2mfBuByQ7kpkW1_nLCcFaO_bBm8zjEE/edit#gid=426229412
googled some of the bee terms to try to determine what he wrote, re "bombus lucorum," "andrena albicam," etc.