Viewing page 27 of 162

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

48.)

30th July 1931. A showery day, dull in morning but with a few sun bursts & showers in aft.
Drove to Cushendun & collected along west side of moraine where river has cut a face on it (= 1) (here much good ground along deserted oxbow of river) then (1 pm) drove up to viaduct where took 3 icks & down left side of valley to old wood (as before); here collected from 2.0 pm till 4.30 but no sun till 4 pm. Wood = 2. Glendun, Co. AN. 
[[underlined]] Bombus agrorum [[/underlined]] [[2 virgin female symbols]] at 1. [[underlined]] B. hortorum [[/underlined]] 1 [[virgin female symbols]] at 1.
[What looked like a [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] Psithyrus distinctus [[/underlined]] seen at 2]
[[underlined]] Andrena subopaca [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] in wood at 2. [[underlined]] A. coitana A. fucata [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] } at viaduct. on [[underlined]] Oenanthe crocata [[/underlined]] 
[[underlined]] Nomada [[/underlined]] seen at 2, in wood, ? species.
[[underlined]] Mellinus arvensis [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] abundant at 1.
[[underlined]] Crabro [dimidiatus [[/underlined]], I suppose] [[2 female symbols]] nesting in wall in Cushendun village & carrying flies home; one seen with fly under left-hind oxter, but George saw one with fly under right oxter.

[[underlined]] Tenthredo [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] at 1.
[[underlined]] Pachyprotasis antennata [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] on birch at 2.
[[underlined]] Athalia [[/underlined]] seen at 2.
[[underlined]] Pteronidea [[/underlined]] [[insertion]] = [[underlined]] Fuscarima [[/underlined]] Benson ( [[checkmark]] RBB. 1934). [[/insertion]] "n. sp. Irish" (See R.C.L.P. in litt. of 6.4.32!) at [[underlined]] Salix cinerea [[/underlined]] with shiny leaves, in wood at 2.

[[end page]]
[[start page]]

(49.

30.7.31 cont. Glendun, AN, cont.
[[underlined]] Pimpla turionellae [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] at 2.
[[underlined]] Homocidus [[/underlined]] sundevali [[strikethrough]] large [[/strikethrough]] [[female symbol]] at 2, on Salix. [[underlined]] H cinctus [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]].
[[underlined]] Promethes [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] ? [[/strikethrough]] pulchellus [[strikethrough]] ? [[/strikethrough]] [[checkmark]] [[female symbol]] at 2.
Red Campoplegid abundant on sedges &c at 2
Ichneumon sp [[male symbol]] at 2.  [[underlined]] Pimpla turionellae [[/underlined]] 2 [[2 male symbols]] at 2.
[[underlined]] Tryphon elongator [[/underlined]] at 1. [[underlined]] Attractodes tenebricosus [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] abundant at 1 on flowers
Tryphonid [[male symbol]] at 2.
4 spp. of vol. 1 or 2 at 2.

[Taken in motor at Larne, Co. AN., on return in aft. 30.7.31. [[underlined]] Stilpnus gagates [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] ?]

[[line across page]]

31st July 1931. A dull day, warm, with misty rain in afternoon.
11.0 AM till 1 pm
Waste ground at S. end of the Curran, Larne Harb. Co. AN. Mostly taken on [[underlined]] Heracleum [[/underlined]] & Daucus. 
[[underlined]] Bombus lucorum, agrorum, lapidasius [[/underlined]] 1 [[virgin female symbol]] & [[underlined]] hortorum [[/underlined]] 
[[underlined]] Odynerus trimarginatus [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]].
Tenthredo 
[[underlined]] Pteronidae myosotidis [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] 
[[underlined]] Pachynematus obductus [[/underlined]] v. near [[underlined]] conductus [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] 
[[bracket encapsulating above two species]] [[checkmark]] R.C.L.P.

Cont. p.t.o.

Transcription Notes:
Note that "Homocidus sundevali" (on 2nd page) may be a misspelling of Homotropus sundevalli. Also note misspelled "B. lapidasius" on second page (should be "B. lapidarius").