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Sunday 12th April 1931. A fine bright morning but wind too cool & strong. No sun after noon.
Collected all over downs (=1) & round [[underlined]] Salix capaca [[/underlined]] in cut down beech wood (=2) at Aldbury Owers, Herts. With C.O. & Benson.
No new Bombi seen today.
[[underlined]] Ormia bicolor [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] taken by Benson at 1.
[[underlined]] Andrean dorsata [[/underlined]] ? [[male symbol]] at 1. [[underlined]] A parsala [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] a [[underlined]] minatula [[uderlined]] 1 st brood! [[/insertion]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] at 1 & 2.
[[underlined]] Halictus fulvicornis [[/underlined]] [[2 female syjmbols]] at 1.
[[underlined]] Andrena gwynana [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbol]] at 2, [[female symbol]] at 1. [[underlined]] A. jacobi [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] at 1.
[[underlined]] A. chrysoscelis [[/udnerlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[female symbol]] at 1.

[[underlined]] Dolerus haematodes [[/underlined]] 2 [[2 female symbols]] on open downs at 1 
[[underlined]] D. rugosulus [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] at base of downs at 1 
[[underlined]] D. puncticollis [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] at 1

[[strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Loderus vestigialis [[/underlined]] ? [[/strikethrough]]
[[underlined]] Rhogogaster [[auenpariae?]] [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] in lane to 1.
[[underlined]] Empria [[/underlined]] at 1
[[underlined]] Blennocampa [[/underlined]] at (Benson).

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[[underlined]] Anomelid [[/underlined]] common over downs at 1.
[[underlined]] Thersilochus [[/underlined]] sp? at Salix at 2.
[[underlined]] Ophion [[/underlined]] sp. very deep red & polished 2 [[2 female symbols]], at 1 (C.O.)
Brachypterus Cryptid at 1 (? where)

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13.4.31. Spent day in London

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14.4.31. Left London by 10.30 AM for Newton Abbot, Devon. In afternoon had short walk with R.C.L & John Perkins, but too late & only [[underlined]] Bombus terrestris [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]], [[underlined]] agrorum [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]]
[[underlined]] Anthophora pilipes [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] seen. The last in the first [[underlined]] Anthophora [[/underlined]] I have ever seen alive & looked more like a big Hover Fly than I should have thought possible!