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202.) 15th July 1928. A very hot day, with little wind & much hot sun: turning to misty rain at 4 pm. Upper Glenasmole (from head of up. Reservoir to 1200 ft alt. on Slade Brook, Co. Du. [[underlined]] Vespa norvegica [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] &c. seen [[underlined]] V. sylvestris [[/underlined]] (?) seen. [[underlined]] Bombus lucorum [[/underlined]] 1 old [[female symbol]], many [[2 virgin female symbols]] " [[Ditto for: Bombus]] [[underlined]] agrorum [[/underlined]] [[2 virgin female symbols]]. [[underlined]] B. muscorum [[/underlined]] 1 old [[female symbol]]. " [[Ditto for: Bombus]] [[underlined]] jonellus [[/underlined]] 1 old [[female symbol]], many [[2 virgin female symbols]]. Psithyrus [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] Andrena coitana [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] tarsata [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] ([[underline]] tarsada [[/underline]] [[2 female symbols]] on [[underlined]] Pot. tormentille [[/underlined]]) [[underlined]] A. fucata [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]]. [[underlined]] A. subopaca [[/underlined]] ? [[2 female symbols]] seen. [[underlined]] Halictus rubicundus [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] common. Also [[2 female symbols]] of small spp. [[underlined]] Sphecodes affinis [[/underlined]]: [[2 female symbols]]. [[underlined]] Nomada obtusiforns [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbol]]. [[underlined]] N. flavoguttata [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] [[underlined]] Crabro dimidiatus [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] seen = [[underlined]] C. varius [[/underlined]] seen. [[underlined]] Odynerus pictus [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] seen. [[underlined]] Leptothorax acervorum [[/underlined]] [[2 virgin female symbols]] at [[underlined]] A. tarsata [[/underlined]] colony. [[underlined]] Tenthredella balteata [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] common, mostly at birch. [[end page]] [[start page]] (203. 15.7.28. Upper Glenasmole cont. Pimpla maculator ? [[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]], small & dark: like [[underlined]] alternans [[/underlined]]! [[underlined]] Glypta ceratates [[/underlined]] (?) [[male symbol]], with rather polished abdomen & shining [[apions?]] of segments. [[underlined]] Lissonota cylindrator [[/underlined]] (?) [[male symbol]]. [[underlined]] Lissonota errabunda [[/underlined]] (?) [[male symbol]]. 2 large black [[2 male symbols]] & 1 red & black [[Amblytala?]] ? [[male symbol]] at about 1,100 ft. [[underlined]] [[Enyston cinctalus?]] [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] fide [[/underlined]] G.J. Kirrich, Sept. 1950, I think taken on this date! AWS. 1950. [[underlined]] Gyrocampa foveola [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] [[insertion]] Later: this [[male symbol]] must belong to Haliday's large var. of [[underlined]] affinis [[/underlined]] or what Nixon proposes to call [[underlined]] Dacnusa esbelta [[/underlined]] ! A.W.S. 12.10.1936. [[/insertion]] & 1 [[female symbol]]; the [[male symbol]] has quite smooth 2nd abd. segment! (!AWS & Nixon 1932) [[line across page]] 16.7.28. A hot sunny day with keen NE wind (at Arklow). Drove to Arklow to bring back the Palmers & walked across S. Strand & Arklow Head to Askintinny with Palmer who showed me his station for [[underlined]] Asplenium lanceolatum [[/underlined]] in the old quarry at N. side of Arklow Head just where S. strand ends. Very few insects out, though blazing sun all the time. [[underlined]] Bombus terrestris [[/underlined]] 1 [[virgin female symbol]] on S. strand. [[underlined]] B. lucorum [[/underlined]] [[2 virgin female symbols]] common (I doubt if I saw any [[underlined]] B. agrorum [[/underlined]] at all!) [[underlined]] Hylaeus hyalinalus [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] at Askintinny, investigating crannies in the rocks and entering holes in boulder clay near sea level.