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72.) [[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]]" [[line]] [[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!] [[end page]] [[start page]] (73. 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. [[vertical line]] [[side note applying to above two species]] Swept off Salix repens in hollow near estuary! [[/side note]] P.T.O.