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[[underlined]] EASTER 1929. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] 28th March 1929. [[/underlined]]  A glorious hot sunny day, after a frosty night.
Ballyhenry quarry, WI. about noon.
[[underlined]] Bombus [[/underlined]] sp. heard
[[underlined]] Andrena apicata [[/underlined]] ? [[2 male symbols]] seen.
[[underlined]] Halictus rubicundus [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] tumulorum [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] seen.
no sawflies: willows very backward & only a few out.
[[underlined]] Banchus [[strikethrough]] pictus [[/strikethrough]] [[/underlined]] crefeldensis Ulbr. fide A. Roman No. 114. [[2 male symbols]] flying over gorse in quarry.
Small icks at [[male symbol]] willows.

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28.3.29.
Gold Mines Valley, WI. 1.30 till 4 pm.
[[underlined]] Bombus jonellus [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]], [[underlined]] B. lucorum [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] seen.
[[underlined]] Andrena minutula [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[female symbol]] in oak wood.
[[underlined]] Vespa vulgaris [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] taken & released
No sawflies! Willows: [[underlined]] none [[/underlined]] yet out, very backward.

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[[insertion]] Mollusk. * [[underlined]] Zonitoides excavatus [[/underlined]] green form, under log.
In May 1929 I sent a [[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] C. anomala [[/underlined]] to Dr. A. Roman of Stockholm as a present & in acknowledging same be said that they were correctly named & that the [[male symbol]] agreed with the only [[male symbol]] in the museum there but did not agree [[underlined]] with [[/underlined]] Schmiedeknecht's description of [[male symbol]] (which I already knew!) AWS.
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[[underlined]] Cryptopimpla anomala [[/underlined]] 2 [[2 male symbols]] 1 [[female symbol]] flying about Holly in oak woods.
[[underlined]] [[Hemitilus?]] [[/underlined]] sp  another ick in oak woods.

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29th March 1929 (Good Friday). Very hot & not a cloud after frosty night.
Left "Merton" at 6 AM & drove to Wexford to meet Mr. & Mrs. H. Womersley of Bristol. After breakfast spent on hour in sand-pit at N. end of the wooden-bridge where took :-
[[underlined]] Andrena clarkella [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]]
[[underlined]] A. nigro-aenea [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] numerous & 1 [[female symbol]] seen: All v. fresh.
[[underlined]] A. minutula [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]].
Other specimens seem may have been A. [[strikethrough]] clarkella [[/strikethrough]] gwynana [[2 male symbols]].
[[underlined]] Halictus rubicundus [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] seen.
[NB. [[strikethrough]] I presume [[underlined]] this is [[/underlined]] the sand-pit where Pillip took [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Andrena carbonaria [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] in June [[/strikethrough]] on 7th July 1928!]

Next drove to Clone (Scarawalsh Bridge) 3 miles N. of Enniscorthy where spent a couple of hours & took
[[underlined]] Vespa vulgaris [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] seen.
[[underlined]] Andrena praecox [[/underlined]] very fresh [[female symbol]] at Salix by R. Baun.
[[underlined]] Halictus calceatus [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]]

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Saw very worn Red Admiral butterfly at N. end of wooden bridge Wexford, several times during stay there in the morning.