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13th May 1928. A dull day, with only two glimpses of sun after reaching ground!
Ballylark, channel, oakwoods & marsh, Co. WI. (an overflow channel on NE slope of Carrick Mt.!)
[[underlined]] Andrena lapponica [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] seen
[[underlined]] A. albicans [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & 1 [[female symbol]] seen.
[[underlind]] Halictus rubicundus [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] seen.
[[underlined]] Bombus lucorum [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbol]] [[double underlined]] & [[virgin female symbol]] worker [[/double underlined]]) seen [[strikethrough]] ) [[/strikethrough]].
[[underlined]] B. jonellus [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbol]], also numerous [[2 virgin female symbols]] seen on [[underlined]] Vaccinium [[/underlined]].
[[underlined]] B. agrorum, B. muscorum [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]], & [[underlined]] B. deshamellus [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] definitely identified. All at [[underlined]] Vaccinium [[/underlined]].

[[underlined]] Dolerus palustris [[/underlined]] [[checkmark]] RCLP. 1 [[male symbol]] in marsh. Also small black sp. with white legs. = [[underlined]] Pontania bella [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]]? RCLP.
[[underlined]] Ichneumonidae [[/underlined]] = about 10 spp.

Very good ground [[underlined]] for mid & late summer. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Menyanthes [[/underlined]] in flowers in marsh!
[Birdsfoot trefoil in flower on the Island, Malahide, Co. Dublin on 17th May 1928] 

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18th (Friday) May 1928.  A fine day after a showery night but with strong E-NE wind & no real sun till after 2 pm.  Hawthorn, except a few bushes, not nearly out!
Valley of the Rye Water, Leixlip, Co. KD. just above canal aqueduct.  With E. O'M!
[[underlined]] Bombus muscorum [[/underlined]]  [[2 female symbols]] fequent. [[underlined]] B. agrorum [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]].
[[underlined]] B. terrestris [[/underlined]] 2 [[2 female symbols]], [[underlined]] B. lucorum [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]], [[underlined]] B. lapidarius [[/underlined]] 2 [[2 female symbols]].
[[underlined]] Andrena jacobi [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] A. albicans [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]].
[[underlined]] Halictus rubicundus, albipes [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] freygessneri [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]]. 
[[underlined]] Sphecodes divisus [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]].
[[underlined]] Nomada marshamella, goodeniana [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] bifida [[/underlined]].
[[underlined]] Odynorus pictus [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]]. First seen 1928.
[[underlined]] Dolerus haematodes [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] [[checkmark]] RCLP.
[[underlined]] Dolerus nigratus [[/underlined]] [[checkmark]] RCLP. [[2 male symbols]] [[checkmark]] & [[2 female symbols]]. [[checkmark]] [[underlined]] Dolerus picipes [[checkmark]] RCLP. 1 [[male symbol]].
[[underlined]] D. palustris [[/underlined]] 3 [[2 male symbol]] [[insertion]] one very abberant, with rugulose abdomen like [[underlined]] D. bimaculatus [[/underlined]]. [[checkmark]] RCLP.
[[underlined]] Rhogogater aucupariae [[/underlined]] [[checkmark]] RCLP 1 [[female symbol]] (E. O'M).
[[underlind]] Selandria [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] serva [[2 female symbols]] ? [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] flavens [[/strikethrough]] 4 [[2 male symbols]] 1 [[female symbol]]. [[checkmark]] RCLP.
Labelled [[boxed]] Rye Water Co. [[strikethrough]] Du. [[/strikethrough]] KD. AWS! 18.5.28 [[/boxed]]
(three of the [[2 male symbol]] very dark var. says RCLP!) [[underlined]] Pachynematus  elitellatus [[female symbol]] [[/underlined]] [[checkmark]] RCLP.
[[underlined]] Blennocampa tenimcornis [[/underlined]] 2 [[2 female symbols]] [[checkmark]] RCLP. Also a [[image - downward arrow]] (EO'M) ? same species about which RCLP. in list dated 7.12.1928 says "One [[male symbol]] aberrant; small 10th supernumerary antennal joint on one side; tegnlae black as in typical [[underlined]] tenuicornis [[/underlined]], whereas all I have seen have there pale as in the [[female symbol]] = var. [[underlined]] humeralis [[/underlined]] Voll. c= [[underlined]] alchemillae [[/underlined]] (am.)
Ichnemoides &c.
[[underlined]] "Pimpla sagax [[/underlined]] Htg." [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] fide [[/underlined]] A. Roman, No. 63!
Mesolepis sp.
&c &c.  

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Wall Brown   } Butterflies
Small Copper } Red Clover in flowers.
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Transcription Notes:
E. O'M = Eugene O'Mahony