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131.) 8/6/30. The Murrough cont. [[underlined]] Tenthredopsis nassata [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] on grass. About a dozen sp. of icks, including one in mash. [[insertion]] marsh [[/insertion]] Bee Hawk moths abundant. [[underlined]] M. aurinia [[/underlined]] just out in marsh S. of old C.G. Station. [[underlined]] Stratiomys furcata [[/underlined]] one in marsh: an early date (?). [[line across page]] 8/6/30. The following is a brief account of the burial of caterpillar by [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Sphex lutaria [[/underlined]] mentioned on p.130. When I arrived at the spot the Sphex had just dragged caterpillar into burrow in almost vertical bank along railway, but the burrow was too short & the cat's. tail stuck out. Sphex was fearfully worried at this & finally dropped out the caterpillar & frantically dug out more sand & lengthened burrow. At this stage I called Palmer who arrived just after cat. had been again dropped into burrow & I thought all was over. But no! Sphex was not satisfied yet & caterpillar was again pulled out & carried about for a time [[left margin]] With the help of Palmer's notes afterwards written up & printed in EMM. June 1931. AWS. [[/margin]] [[end page]] [[start page]] (132. & finally placed in a tuft of vegetation about a foot above the burrow. She then recommenced digging furiously, throwing out large quantities of sand & having evidently satisfied herself that the burrow was large enough did not at first seem to know what to do next but eventually remember the caterpillar & fetched it down & put it in the burrow & commenced to fill the latter from below though the bank also was loose & could easily have been pulled down over the hole. When the [[insertion]] ^ loose [[/insertion]] sand immediately below the burrow had all been scraped in, she went further down the bank & kicked up more which she then filled in the hole with. She then became more excited than ever & rushed all over the bank going quite a couple of feet away from the burrow but finally seized a small pebble & jammed it into the mouth of the hole. Again she rushed about the bank & went quite far away & as it was evident she was looking for another pebble & scattered some near the burrow. On one of her periodic returns she at last saw one of my pebbles & fairly threw herself on it with delight, grasped it in her mandibles, staggered downhill 7 or 8 inches & pitched it into the hole. Only then did she pull down the bank from above & obliterated all trace of the burrow. [[left margin]] After she had hidden one [[text obscured by folded page]] departed & we dug out the pebble which weighed 3 gm while a similar [[female symbol]] to her weighed 1 gm. [[/margin]] [[line across page]] 12th June 1930, afternoon! Dull, E. wind, after a warm morning & followed by a sunny afternoon. Liffey Head bog, Co. Wicklow, [[insertion]] ^ ca. 1700 ft alt. [[/insertion]] 1.0 till 4.30pm. [[underlined]] Tenthredella balteata [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] in bog pool! [[underlined]] Tenthredo arcuata [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] in bog pool! [[underlined]] Dolerus aeneus [[/underlined]] ? seen. [[underlined]] Bombus jonellus & lucorum [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] ^ [[2 female symbols]] [[/insertion]] seen, probably at Vaccinium. Pimpla maculator [[2 male symbols]] abundant, many in pools. " [[Ditto for: Pimpla]] brevicornis small [[female symbol]] at Collana. P. sp.? [[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]]? Glypta parvicaudata ? [[2 male symbols]] some in pools [[underlined]] Zootrephus rufiventris [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]]. NB. Many insects on surface of pools. ? some had been carried up by E. wind from Glencree.