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28.) 6th July 1935. Very hot & close in morning, dull; but after 1 PM. all sunny & still hotter, little breeze S-SE. Sheen River & Drumanassig Bridge, Co. SK. 10.30 AM till 3.30 PM. Wood about a mile from Kenmare near bridge = 1 [[insertion]] ^ Left [[/insertion]] River bank by Sheen River, as in 1933 & 1934, just above small wood, about 2 miles below Drumanassig Br. = 2 Moraine [[insertion]] ^ on left bank [[/insertion]] across valley at Drumanassig Bridge = 3 Right bank of river at Drumanassig Bridge = 4. [[underlined]] Bombus agrorum [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] lucorum [[/underlined]], only 1 or two seen all day. [[underlined]] Andrena humilis [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] nesting in path on summit of moraine at 3 & on boreen by river [[underlined]] below [[/underlined]] bridge at 4. [[underlined]] A. tarsata [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbol]] & a few fresh [[2 female symbols]] at 2. [[/underlined]] A. coitana [[/underlined]] a few [[2 male symbols]] at 2, [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] common at 3. [[underlined]] A. gwynana [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female sybmols]] at 3. [[underlined]] Halictus rubicundus [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] out at 2, [[2 female symbols]] abundant at 2, 3 & 4. [[underlined]] H. calceatus, albipes, freygessneri & nitidiusculus [[/underlined]] probably seen at 2 & 3. [[underlined]] H. leucopus [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] at 2 & 3 certainly. [[end page]] [[start page]] (29. 6.7.35 cont. Sheen River, SK. cont. [[underlined]] Sphecodes monilicornis [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] at 2. [[underlined]] S. affinis [[/underlined]] ? [[2 female symbols]] at 3. [[underlined]] Hylaeus minutus [[/underlined]] only 1 ([[female symbol]]) seen, this in Jasione at 4. [Vespa: none seen all day] [[underlined]] Odynerus pictus [[/underlined]]? 1 [[female symbol]] at 4. [[underlined]] Chrysis ignita [[/underlined]] on stump at 2 [[underlined]] Pompilus nigerrimus [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] seen at 3. [[underlined]] Ceropales maculatus [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] at 3. [[underlined]] Salius notatulus [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] seen on oak at 3. [[underlined]] Lindenius albilabris [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] abundant & nesting in trodden path at highest point of moraine at 3 close to Glengarriff road: [[2 male symbols]] storing up immature bright green hemipterous. Second Irish & first S. Kerry record. [[underlined]] Crabro peltarius [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] taken & 1 [[female symbol]] seen at 2. [[underlined]] C. varius [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 female symbols]] abundant at 2 & 3. [[underlined]] C. dimidiatus [[/underlined]] ? seen. [[underlined]] C. leucostoma [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] at stumps at 3. [[underlined]] Pemphrodon shuckardi [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] at stump at 3. [[underlined]] Mellinus arvensis [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] at 3. [[underlined]] Larius fuligmosus [[/underlined]] [[2 virgin female symbols]] on usual tree at 2.
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Drumanassig = Dromanassig -@siobhanleachman
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