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[[arrow indicating insertion]] Insects taken at Portrane on 6.9.31 labelled by error also, 2.9.31! AWS [[/insertion]] [[image - arrow pointing right]]

2nd Sept. 1931. A dull warm, afternoon, with thunder in the hills. 
3.0 - 4.0 pm. Cloghleague Glen, Co. WI.
[[underlined]] Bombus agrorum, lucorum [[/underlined]] & hortorum [[/underlined]] ([[2 male symbols]] only).
[[underlined]] Andrena fuscipes [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] seen. [[underlined]] A. tarsata [[/underlined]] 1 worn [[female symbol]].
[[underlined]] Halictus albipes [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] on [[underlined]] Scabiosa succisa [[/underlined]]. 
[[underlined]] Nomada rufipes [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] with [[underlined]] A. fuscipes [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Scolioneura betulae [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] on birch in glen. [[checkmark]] RCLP. This [[male symbol]] was subsequently sent to Benson in 1937 who returned it with the label "[[underlined]] Scolioneura [[/underlined]] ? sp. nov. near [[underlined]] betulae [[/underlined]]"
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[[underlined]] Promethes sulcator [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]]
[[underlined]] Homocidus pulcher [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] dark var. at birch.
[[female symbol]] Anomalid at oak

Also stopped on outward journey at plantations near [[line]] ? [[underlined]] E. of [[Trumorla?]]! [[/underlined]] where many stumps.
Here took [[underlined]] Pemphredon shuckardi [[/underlined]] & saw but missed 1 [[male symbol]] & 3 [[2 female symbols]] Lissonotae at stumps.
On return journey stopped in Slade of Saggart DU, & bottled several Braeconids [[insertion]] = Barichneumon [[/underlined]] which were in car.

[Big flood in Dodder, &c the following day & much damage done in all valleys radiating from Kippure!] 

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6th Sept. 1931. [[arrow indicating insertion]] [[underlined]] Some [[insertion]] (?all.) [[/insertion]] labelled 2.9.1931 by error! [[/underlined]] [[/insertion]]
A fine day, much sun, but NW breeze at times strong : but after the great [[wind?]] of 2nd - 4th Sept. where much of Dublin was flooded there were few insects about, though the [[2 male symbols]] [[underlined]] Halicti [[/underlined]] were more numerous than before this year.
[[underlined]] Portrane [[/underlined]], coast outside Asylum & dunes to middle of the "Island", as before, Co. DU.
[[underlined]] Bombus terrestris [[/underlined]] 1 fresh [[female symbol]] seen. [[underlined]] B. lucorum [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]]. ([[2 male symbols]] all killed?)
[[underlined]] B. hortorum [[/underlined]] ([[two male symbols]]) seen. [[underlined]] B. muscorum [[/underlined]] [[two male symbols]] & [[two virgin female symbols]] seen.
[[underlined]] B. lapidarius [[/underlined]] [[two male symbols]] & [[two virgin female symbols]]. [I do not recollect seeing [[underlined]] agrorum [[/underlined]]!]
[[underlined]] Halictus rubicundus [[/underlined]] [[two male symbols]] & fresh [[two female symbols]]. [[underlined]] H. calceatus [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]].
[[underlined]] H. albipes [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] (& ?1 [[female symbol]]). [[underlined]] H. smeathmanellus [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] at Martello Town.
[[underlined]] Colletes picistigma [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] on  Lestodon in dunes : very late.
[[underlined]] Tachysphex pectinipes [[/underlined]] seen.
[[underlined]] Pompilus rufipes [[/underlined]] 2 [[2 male symbols]] see in dunes on "Island"
[[underlined]] P. gibbus [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] seen on dunes & coast.
[[underlined]] Salius exaltatus [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] on carrot along estuary road.
[[underlined]] Ceropales maculatus [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] in dunes with very red legs.
[No [[underlined]] Lasius niger [[/underlined]] in dunes, where thousands on the pervious week!]
[[underlined]] Athalia cordata [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] [[checkmark]] AWS. [[underlined]] Tenthredo arcuata [[/underlined]] a few left 
[[underlined]] Pristiphora fulvipes [[/underlined]] 2 [[2 female symbols]] [[checkmark]] RCLP.
[[underlined]] Pteronidea curtispina [[/underlined]], large [[male symbol]], with stigma nearly as dark as in [[underlined]] ribesii [[/underlined]] group! R.C.L.P. in litt. dated 6.4.1932.
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[[side note applying to above two species]] Swept off Salix repens in hollow near estuary! [[/side note]]
P.T.O.