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7th August 1927. A wet morning, clearing at 10 AM. Sun all day on coast: cloudy in hills. Rain in evening on arrival of "depression" from S.W. Warm but very windy!
[[underlined]] The Murrough [[/underlined]], S. of Newcastle station & road. 1 = on coast & along railway : 2 = Willow scrub in marshes.
Flies. [[underlined]] Anthrax paniscus [[/underlined]] quite common along railway & dunes at 1.
[[underlined]] Stratiomys furcata [[/underlined]]. About 8 examples, on Wild Carrot at 1 & on Angelica at 2.
[[double underlined]] Chalcid. [[/double underlined]] [[underlined]] Smicra sispes [[/underlined]] L. 1 [[female symbol]] on Angelica in marsh at 2.  As I got in sight, it crawl[[strikethrough]] ing [[/strikethrough]]ed under the umbel & stayed there till shaken into net.  Presumably bred at expense of [[underlined]] Stratiomys [[/underlined]] larva!
[[double underlined]] Aculeatis [[/double underlined]] [[underlined]] Bombus terrestris [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] on [[underlined]] Carduus palustris [[/underlined]] at 2 the first [[insertion]] ^ [[underlined]] terrestris [[/underlined]] [[/insertion]] seen for months: [[underlined]] B. agrorum [[/underlined]] [[2 virgin female symbols]] common.
[[underlined]] B. muscorum [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] frequent. [[underlined]] B. lapidarius [[/underlined]] 1 [[virgin female symbol]].
[[underlined]] B. hortorum [[/underlined]] [[2 virgin female symbols]]. [[underlined]] Psithyrus barbutellus [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] 
[ [[underlined]] B. lucorum [[/underlined]] not seen!]
[[underlined]] Colletes picistigma [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] (very worn) & [[2 female symbols]] on [[underlined]] Leontodon hispidus [[/underlined]].
[[underlined]] Halictus tumulorum [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] seen at 2.
[[underlined]] Crabro vagus [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]] seen at 2.

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The Murrough : [[strikethrough]] 8 [[/strikethrough]] 7.8.27 cont.
[[underlined]] Pompilus gibbus [[/underlined]] & [underlined]] P. plumbeus [[/underlined]] common at 1. 

[[underlined]] Ametastegia glabrata [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] [[checkmark]] RCLP.
[[underlined]] Ichneumonidae &?[[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Chelonus [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Glypta mensurator [[/underlined]] 2 [[2 female symbols]],  G. [[underlined]] "nigrotrochanterata" [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] (long terebra).
[[underlined]] Lissonota bellator [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] (one with almost quadrate 2nd segment, ? this species, abnormal).
L.     [[male symbol]] (black coxae)
Pimpla brevicornis [[female symbol]].

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8.8.1927. A [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Lissonota femorata [[/underlined]] taken by A. M. Gwynn in deerpark, Powerscourt, Co. WI. verified as such by Dr. A. Roman: see Roman No. 76, Vol. 3 ms. p. 100 [[image - arrow pointing right]]
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11th August 1927. Afternoon fine, but very stormy : fair sun!
Logs, near gate of Deerpark, Powerscourt, WI, as on 3rd Aug.
[[underlined]] Trypoxylon clavicerum [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] on [[insertion]] ^ oak [[/insertion]] log with [[underlined]] Passaloecus monilicornis [[/underlined]] where it was seen to enter an old beetle hole on 3rd inst. NEW TO IRELAND. No other aculeates of interest seen, but [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] Psithyrus barbutellus [[/underlined]] as before.
Ichneumonidae &c.
[[underlined]] Rhyssa persuasoria [[/underlined]] 1 very large [[female symbol]] on log below sawmill, with much white on it & a large rect. patch. of red on centre of mesothorax!  
Chelonus small sp. 4 or 5 on moss at roots of stump!