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21st Oct. 1928. A glorious day! Walked over Bray Hd., across Kilruddey, Little Sugarloaf, via Kilmacanogh, Rocky Valley, & Tinnaherich to Enniskerry [[underlined]] on Bray Hd. [[/underlined]], saw 1 [[male symbol]] each [[underlined]] Bombus jonellus [[underlined]] & [[underlined]] muscorum [[/underlined]] & 1 [[virgin female symbol]] [[underlined]] B. agrorum [[/underlined]]; also 1 [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Vespa vulgaris [[/underlined]], all on heather.
On Little Sugarloaf took 3 [[2 male symbols]] Ophion luteus ? flying over the heather & saw at least one more on summit; took a very small ick. under stone where was a nest of [[underlined]] Lasius flavus or Formica fusca [[/underlined]] (? which);
On summit took two spp. of Proctotypids under stones where ants also occurred.
[[underlined]] Lasius flavus [[/underlined]] nest with many winged sexes discovered on E. slope of Sugarloaf by Palmer: this species & [[underlined]] Myrmica rugimodis [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] Formica fusca [[/underlined]] all [[strikethrough]] seen [[/strikethrough]] on summit, 1120 feet alt. & also a hibernating { & a [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] B. lucorum [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Vespa rufa [[/underlined]] } (Palmer under stones.
J.G.J. Palmer found [[underlined]] Ovaithrpus perpusillus [[/underlined]] on Bray Head a little NE. of the monument, just below the "view point" over Grey stone. 

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22nd Oct. 1928.  Another glorious day!
In afternoon drove to Kilruddery gate & walked up Bray Head & down again. On way up swept a [[female symbol]] Pimplid [[insertion]] [[underlined]] P. rufata [[/underlined]]? small. [[/insertion]] amongst grass & took a  [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] mesocharis [[/underlined]] flying over bracken. On summit saw one [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] Bombus agrorum [[/underlined]] 

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28th October 1928. A fine day with much sun, but keen and strong W - NW breeze.  Drove Dr. L. B. Smyth to Maryborough & home via Mountmellick, Portarlington Rathangan, Dunmarry Hill & the Curragh.
Had lunch in lane near (W. of ry.) at Bovies Ho., N.W. of Marybrough [[insertion]] Q Co [[/insertion]] at 12.30 - 1-0 pm, where saw many [[2 virgin female symbols]] of [[underlined]] Vespa vulgaris [[/underlined]] at Ivy blossoms & took two [[2 male symbols]] icks. (Tryphomids!) 
On the Curragh [[insertion]] ^ KD [[/insertion]] at 11 AM saw very fresh [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Halictus rubicundus [[/underlined]] on [[underlined]] Leontodon autumnalis [[/underlined]] (?) & another similar [[female symbol]] on same plant in gravel pit in the Marybrough [[insertion]] Q Co. [[/insertion]] [[eske?]]

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4th Nov. 1928.  A dull misty day, with drip in aft. Walked from Old Barn to lip of Corrig, via Ballinascorney; thence across head of Upper Reserve to Piperstown to Rathfarnham. No Hymenoptera seen!  

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7th Nov 1928 Took a [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] Daenusa [[/underlined]] on kitchen window! 

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[[underlined]] In litt. [[/underlined]] dated 15.XI.28 Dr Perkins says that even though nothing come of it it is safe to record a larva of [[underlined]] Pristiphora testacea [[/underlined]] Jur. sent by A.A.L. from Shankill, Co. Dublin!