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[[underlined]] 144. [[/underlined]] 21st August 1927. A windy day with dreadful showers from W. & N.W. Hot sun between. Went in afternoon to fort of old road over [[Nat.?]] Seskin, "Tallaght Hill", Co. Du. Bombus [[strikethrough]] muscorum [[/underlined]] agrorum [[2 virgin female symbols]], [[underlined]] B. muscorum [[/underlined]] [[2 virgin female symbols]] & [[2 male symbols]] quite common, [[underlined]] B. lupidarius [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] quite common: all on thistle flowers in field between road & glen! i.e. Glen E. of "Tallaght Hill". [[underlined]] Crabro cavifrons [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] seen to enter burrow in burnt stump by road. Ichneumonidae &c. a few on Angelica in glen, but most including wingless [[insertion]] [[arrow]] (Chasmodon apterus) [[/insertion]] Braconid taken on burnt stump. [[insertion]] This note refers to previous page. AWS. [[/insertion]] Many cones were brought home on [[insertion]] ^ 19-8.27 [[/insertion]] [[strikethrough]] this date [[/strikethrough]] & a [[strikethrough]] few days afterwards [[/strikethrough]] on 21.8.27 George found a [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Lissonota culiciformis [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] ^ dark var. [[/insertion]] Roman No. 106, in our kitchen at Harold's Cross, which may or may not have come out of the cones! A.W.S. [[line across page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[underlined]] 145. [[/underlined]] 25th August 1927. A fine day but some clouds & W. wind Down to the Derries, Ballybrittas, (5 miles SW. of Monasterevan!) there on to Rock of Dunamase, via Great Heath, & home by Stradbally. Queens Co. 1 = The Derries. 2 = Great Heath. 3 = R. of Dunamase. 4 = Quarry on Stradbally Rd. 1/2 mile S. of 3. [[underlined]] Croesus septentrionalis [[/underlined]] [[checkmark]] RCLP. var. [[insertion]] [[underlined]] stephensi [[/underlined]] Newman [[/insertion]] 1 [[female symbol]] on Angelica by drain along S.W. corner of the Derries at 1. Hover Fly on Angelica. [[underlined]] Chasmias lugens [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] on Angelica at 1. [[boxed]] 3 [[2 female symbols]] taken under bark of log at same place on 16th Oct.! [[/boxed]] Genarches sulphuratus [[female symbol]] at 1. [AWS. 1930!] [[underlined]] Colletes succincta [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] 1 [[female symbol]] in sand pit at 2. [[underlined]] Halictus rubicundus [[/underlined]] Fresh [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] at 4 " [[Ditto for: Halictus]] [[underlined]] nitidiusculus [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]], [[underlined]] H. calceatus [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & 1 [[female symbol]], [[underlined]] H. albipes [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] at 1 " [[Ditto for: Halictus]] [[underlined]] tumulorum [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]], [[underlined]] H. villosulus [[/underlined]] 1 worn [[female symbol]] at 4. [[underlined]] Salius exaltatus [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbol]] at 4 [[underlined]] Mellinus arvensis [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbol]] & [[2 female symbol]] at 4. [[underlined]] Athalia lineolata [[/underlined]] at 4. [[underlined]] Bombus lapidarius [[/underlined]] ( [[2 virgin female symbols]] only) was the common sp. of the district. [[underlined]] B. muscorum [[/underlined]] also frequent, [[underlined]] B. agrorum [[/underlined]] less so; [[underlined]] B. lucorum [[/underlined]] a few, mostly [[2 male symbols]].[[underlined]] Psithyrus campestris [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] seen Ichneumonidae &c. Many spp. almost all at 4 but a few on Wild Carrot at 2 & some at 3. [[underlined]] Lissonota basalis [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]], [[underlined]] L. bellator [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]], small dark var., [[underlined]] L. variabilis [[/underlined]] ? [[female symbol]], L. Glypta Pimpla detrita ? var with short terebras [[female symbol]] P. brevicornis 2 [[2 female symbols]].
Transcription Notes:
On the first page, "B. lupidarius" is a misspelling of B. lapidarius.
On the second page, "Monasterevan" is a misspelling of "Monasterevin".