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128.)

30.7.34 cont.] without encountering serious rain, but a few miles N. of Limerick met terrific squalls of wind & rain & the same all the way to Nenagh - Roscrea - Mountrath - Maryborough & as far as Newbridge, after which rain slight & none between Naas & Dublin to speak of. Stopped for half an hour for tea near Birdlip in shelter of trees, then drove home without a halt, car never running better & reached 14 Clareville Rd. at 9-35 P.M.
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Collected in quarry, just S. of Headley Bridge Co. NK. [or near same].
[ [[underlined]] Protichneumon laminatorius [[/underlined]] : a [[male symbol]] crashed into car, stunned, & was captured, about a mile S. of the quarry!]
Ichneumon gemellus? [[insertion]] var. [[/insertion]] black [[male symbol]]
[[underlined]] Microcryptus [[/underlined]] ? brachypterous [[female symbol]].
[[underlined]] Andrena saundersella [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]], worn. [[underlined]] Halictus albipes [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[female symbol]].
[[underlined]] Halictus villosulus [[/underlined]] 1 fresh [[male symbol]], 1 worn [[female symbol]]. [[underlined]] H. nitidiusculus [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]].
[[underlined]] Sphecodes monilicornis [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]].
[[underlined]] Crabro varius [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]]. [[underlined]] C. dimidiatus [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] Mellinus arvensis [[/underlined]] seen ?

END OF KERRY TRIP: 1934.

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129.)

B. on sandhills at Darrynane, Co SK.
the snails [[underlined]] Helicella intersecta [[/underlined]] (caperata) & [[underlined]] virgata [[/underlined]] were common, but I saw no sign of [[underlined]] acuta [[/underlined]] or [[underlined]] itala [[/underlined]], either living or fossil. [[underlined]] Geomalacus maculosus [[/underlined]] probably common on lichen covered rocks towards The Harbour, Darrynane, & one taken at Glencar under bark of an old pine stump just behind the hotel on 28.6.34: none seen at Glencar after this owing to heat & drought.

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5th August 1934. A wretched day, dull & turning gradually to rain from SE-E-then NE.
In morning drove to the North Bull, DU., with C.W. Allen, but except for Bumbles nothing out.
[[underlined]] Bombus terrestris [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]]. [[underlined]] B. lucorum [[/underlined]], a few [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 virgin female symbols]], 1 fresh [[female symbol]] (Allen).
[[underlined]] B. lapidarius [[/underlined]] many [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 virgin female symbols]]. [[underlined]] B. muscorum [[/underlined]] a few [[2 male symbols]].
[[underlined]] Psithyrus campestris [[/underlined]], pale & dark [[2 male symbols]], but no [[underlined]] agrorum [[/underlined]] seen!!
[[underlined]] P. barbutellus [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] seen.
[[underlined]] Colletes picistigma [[/underlined]] 1 fresh [[female symbol]] on spurge.

[[underlined]] Exolytus [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]].

P.T.O.

Transcription Notes:
Reviewed. Agreed w. transcription of two [[?]] so took words out of brackets. -@siobhanleachman