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225.) 11th Nov. 1930. A fine sunny day, but with very cold W. wind. 2.30 till 4.0 pm. Glen above Enniskerry (1/2 a mile), Co. WI. About a couple of dozen icks. & braconids beaten of ivy blossom, hazel, oak &c. (mostly off ivy!) [[underlined]] Stilpnus [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] [[underlined]] [[?]] [[?]] [[/undelrined]] [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Stenomacrus ventralis [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]], 3 [[2 female symbols]]. [[underlined]] Orthocentrus [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] ? Sp? near [[underlined]] Plectiscus [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] Plectiscus niger [[/underlined]] Först ? (= [[underlined]] communis [[/underlined]] var. Thoms.). [[/insertion]], like but not, [[underlined]] Phrudus [[/underlined]], 1 [[female symbol]] with very long terebra. [[underlined]] Pezomachus [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] beaten out of ivy. [[underlined]] Dacnusa [[/underlined]] [[line across page]] 15th Nov. 1930. A wet morning & a cold clear afternoon! Drove Dr. K. Kevan (Edinburgh) to Mountmellick, QC. to look for [[underlined]] Vertigo genesii [[/underlined]] &c. Passed some very nice ground for insects between Ballybritta & mountmellick canal, round about Emo Park. No hymenoptera seen during the day. [[end page]] [[start page]] (226. 16th Nov. 1930. A glorious day, after a very stormy wet day & bitter cold night. First snow on the hills & Secawn almost white. Much sun up till 2 pm & quite hot in shelter. With E. O'M. Drove via nun's Cross to Clara, Co. WI. [[underlined]] Vespa vulgarius [[/underlined]] [[2 virgin female symbols]] very busy at ivy blossom near nun's Cross. In oak wood below Clara Bridge & especially behind the sand flat & about the Crony Burn icks. abundant at ivy blossom & also beaten off [[underlined]] Vaccinium [[/underlined]] &c. OMahony & I also got about a dozen in rotton logs in hibernation. [[underlined]] Stenichneumon defrandator [[/underlined]] ? 3 [[2 female symbol]] in [[underlined]] hibernation [[/underlined]]. [[underlined]] Exephanes occupator [[/underlined]] ? [[2 female symbols]] in hibernation Two other species of Ichneumonidae (vol. 1) in hibernation All nest beaten off ivy &c. T.T.O. [[right pointing arrow]]