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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.
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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").