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42.)

25th July 1931 cont. 

Labelled [[boxed]] "25.7.31. Aft." [[/boxed]]

Afternoon : warm & some good sun bursts.
Ballygalley Head (N. [[insertion]] ^ & N.W. [[/insertion]] slopes, along chalk scarp & roadside; marshy fields & hedges!), Co. AN.
[[underlined]] Bombus lucorum & agrorum [[/underlined]] [[2 virgin female symbols]].
[[underlined]] Psithyrus distinctus [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] (worn!) seen.
[[underlined]] Pemphredon lethifer [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[female symbol]], also 2 nests in bramble along roadside ditch. [ [[underlined]] Perithous [[strikethrough]] mediator (?) [[/strikethrough]] [[/underlined]] divinator [[male symbol]] taken at same place, [[2 female symbols]] along hedges inland!]
[[underlined]] Tenthredo "arcuatus" [[/underlined]] abundant. 
[[underlined]] Tenthredopis [[/underlined]] sp. - [[male symbol]] 
[[underlined]] Perithous [[strikethrough]] mediator ? [[/strikethrough]] [[/underlined]] divinator [[male symbol]] & [[2 female symbols]], ? assoc. with [[underlined]] Pemphredon lethifer [[/underlined]]
Many icks taken along hedges & on cow parsnip &c along chalk scarp; a few swept off rushes &c in nearby fields including 4 [[underlined]] Rhogas [[/underlined]] sp. [[underlined] Promethes laticarpus [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]]
[[underlined]] Tryphonid [[/underlined]] ? same as taken at Kilkeel, DO. on 19 & 23.7.31.
[[double underlined]] Plectiscid [[/double underlined]]: [[underlined]] Microleptes aquisgranensis [[/underlined]] Först. 1 [[male symbol]]. [[underlined]] Homocidus longiventris [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[male symbol]].
[[underlined]] Homocidus nigritarsus [[/underlined]] ? [[2 male symbols]].
[[underlined]] Homocidus [[/underlined]] sp. ? [[female symbol]] (= [[underlined]] tricolor [[/underlined]] n. sp. AWS 1934)
[[underlined]] Lissonota errabunda [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] ? (freak!). [[underlined]] Glypta nigricornis [[/underlined]] ? [[male symbol]].

[Phygadeuonid [[female symbol]] & Braconid [[female symbol]] taken in motor at Larne on return in afternoon!] 25.7.31.

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43.

26th July 1931. A fine day, but not much sun!
Before breakfast took [[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Lissonota cylindrator [[/underlined]] on carrot near [[strikethrough]] Orad [[/strikethrough]] Olderfleet Castle, Curran, Larne Harb. AN.
Drove to Glenarm, where collected on old quarry tips N. of town on coast road (= 1), then to Glendun viaduct [[insertion]] labelled [[boxed]] "Glendun Vi." [[/boxed]] [[/insertion]] where collected in scrub, &c at N. end of same (= 2); then [[strikethrough]] town [[/strikethrough]] down valley to old road along west side of [[line]] wood, [[insertion]] labelled [[boxed]] "Glendun" [[/boxed]] [[/insertion]], where collected in wood & along road (= 3), then back to Red Bay, where on sandhills took 3 icks on carrot (= 4); then home to Larne, Co. AN.
[[underlined]] Bombus lapidarius [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] & [[2 virgin female symbols]] at 1. [[underlined]] B. lucorus [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] agrorum [[/underlined]] [[2 virgin female symbols]].
[[underlined]] Andrena saundersella [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] on carrot & cow parsnip at 1.
[[underlined]] A. coitana [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] on bramble & cow-parsnip at 2.
[[underlined]] Halictus freygessneri [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] ^ [[female symbol]] [[/insertion]] at 2. [[underlined]] Odynerus pictus [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] at 1.
[[underlined]] Crabro dimidiatus [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] abundant at 3, nesting in old mortar of wall along old road.
[[underlined]] Tenthredo "arcuatus" [[/underlined]] abundant - [[underlined]] Tenthredopsis [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] at 3.
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[[underlined]] Athalia lineolata  [[/underlined]] at 2 & 3. [[underlined]] Trichiosoma [[/underlined]] - - [[female symbol]] at 3
[[underlined]] "Nematus" lucidus [[/underlined]] [[checkmark]] RCLP. [[male symbol]] at 2 amongst alders in field.
[[underlined]] Dolerus [[/underlined]] aeneus [[female symbol]] at alders in field above 2.
[[underlined]] Fenusi dohrni [[female symbol]] [[checkmark]] RCLP. [[/underlined]] on Alder at 2.
[[underlined]] Pachyprotasis rapae [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] anten[[insertion]] ^ n [[/insertion]]ata [[antennata]] [[/underlined]]  1 [[female symbol]] each on alder at 3.
[[left margin]] [ [[underlined]] Ceropales maculatus [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] ( [[underlined]] almost-certainly [[/underlined]]) seen on carrot at 1.] [[/left margin]]