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19th May 1929.  A Glorious Day! with some high fleecy clouds at time dimming the sun & a keen E. wind in early part.
Drove to Clara, WI, where worked on the oak woods below the bridge, to sand-flat, as usual.
11 AM.  Stopped at marsh beyond Ballyhenry, but sun obscured & cool wind.  Took here one [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] Dolerus oblongus [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] [[checkmark]] RCLP. [[/insertion]] & several icks, collected [[insertion]] [[underlined]] Odynerus pictus  [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] seen [[/insertion]] in motor during drive, also 1 [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Melanichneumon sanguinator [[/underlined]] taken in motor near Kilmacanoge, WI.
11.30 AM. stopped to explore marsh &c. at Garryduff Cross Roads, E. of Cronyburn, WI., but again no sun & cool wind.  Took here several [[male symbol]] Dolerus aeneus.  [[underlined]] Bombus muscorum [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] seen.  Also some icks & one [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Blennocampa [[/underlined]] sp. swept off rushes &c in marsh at foot of small channel NE of cross-roads.
[[strikethrough]] 12 noon till 5pm. [[/strikethrough]] Perkins (notes of 5.2.30) say this is [[underlined]] B. subcana [[/underlined]] ?

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19.5.29 cont.  Clara cont.
12 noon till 5 pm.  Oak woods (1), sand-flat (2) and Osmunda - marsh behind latter (3) on left bank of Avonmore, below bridge.  Many willows in full flower & some not out yet.
[[underlined]] Bombus lucorum [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] & 1 [[virgin female symbol]] (on willow) seen, [[underlined]] B. jonellus [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] & [[2 virgin female symbols]].
[[underlined]] B. agrorum [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]].  [[underlined]] Psithyrus distinctus [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] seen.
[[underlined]] Vespa rufa & vulgaris [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] seen.
[[underlined]] Andrena [[strikethrough]] apecata [[strikethrough]] [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] ^ lapponica ([[underlined]] fide [[/underlined]] RCLP.) [[/insertion]] 1 very worn [[male symbol]] on willows at 2.
[[underlined]] Andrena sericea [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]], [[underlined]] A. albicans [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] seen at 2.
[[underlined]] Halictus [[/underlined]] spp. seen on sand-flat as usual.
[[underlined]] Nomada bifida [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] abundant.
[[underlined]] Sphecodes [[/underlined]] very abundant on sand-flat!
[[underlined]] S. divisus, S. affinis, & S. hyalinatus [[/underlined]] (?) 3 [[2 female symbols]] {See RCLP's notes dated 12.3.30!
[[underlined]] Chrysis ignita [[/underlined]] seen just below bridge.  1st for 1929.
[No sign of [[underlined]] Arge metallica [[/underlined]] in [[underlined]] Osmunda [[/underlined]]  glade at 3]
[[underlined]] Pontania [[/underlined]] sp.? 4 [[2 male symbols]] (see RCLP. 12.2.30).  [[underlined]] Pontania leucosticta [[/underlined]] 3 [[2 male symbols]] [[checkmark]] RCLP.
Dolerus aeneus [[2 male symbols]] just below bridge.
[[underlined]] Dineura virididorsata [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] [[checkmark]] RCLP. [[/insertion]] [[male symbol]] (in glade?).  [[underlined]] Euura saliceti [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]] [[checkmark]] RCLP.  [[underlined]] Pontania [[/underlined]] sp. (like [[underlined]] bella [[/underlined]]) RCLP.
[[strikethrough]] [[underlined]] [[?]] [[?]] [[/underlined]] [[/strikethrough]]
[[underlined]] Pristiphora melanocarpa [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] ([[checkmark]] RCLP), amongst Vaccinium &c. at upper end of sand flat.
Braconid: [[underlined]] Ichneutes reunitor [[/underlined]] Nees, [[male symbol]] (? at willows at 3).
[[underlined]] Ephialtes tenuiventris [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] on birch at 3.  "Correct!" [[underlined]] fide [[/underlined]] Roman No.79.
[[underlined]] Pimpla [[strikethrough]] [[bermuthi?]] [[/underlined]] Harting [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] inquisitor [[/underlined]] Scop { No. 81. [[underlined]] fide [[/underlined]] Roman. [[male symbol]] ? where got.
[[underlined]] P. [[strikethrough]] rufala [[/strikethrough]] [[/underlined]] ovivora [[male symbol]].
Rest of icks at 2 or 3!

Took 2 [[underlined]] Silpha [[/underlined]] 4 - [[underlined]] punctata [[/underlined]] on willow at 3!