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154.) 4.5.36. afternoon. 2:30 till 4:0 PM. The Black Quarry, S. of Kilkenny Castle, Co. KK. Nothing new seen & nothing collected! [[line across page]] Left Kilkenny by 5.30 P.M. train for Dublin! [[line across page]] 9th May 1936. 7-8 pm. Very hot sunny day! Garden, 14 Clareville Rd., Harolds Cross, DU. 1st ick seen in garden during year: [[2 male symbols]] of a species of Campoplegid with banded hind tibiae (black & whitish!), not kept, probably [[underlined]] Angitia [[/underlined]] or [[underlined]] Omorga [[/underlined]] ! [[underlined]] Andrena jacobi [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & several fresh [[2 female symbols]], seen for first time in garden this year. [[underlined]] Halictus leucopus [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] seen. [[underlined]] B. agrorum [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] seen. [[underlined]] Vespa vulgaris [[/underlined]] several [[2 female symbols]] seen. [[arrow from "Bombus lucorum" above]] [ [[underlined]] Bombus jonellus [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] seen in garden on, I think, the evening of 5th May, first at flowers of black currant & then at Mediterranean Heath.] [[end page]] [[start page]] 155. 10th May 1936. Very hot, very sunny, faint E. breeze: many insects out. Glenasmole, Co. DU. 11 till 5 p.m. Worked coombs &c, E. of lower reservoir & marshy road below dam. [[underlined]] Bombus terrestris [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] only noted. [[underlined]] B. lucorum [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] common. [[underlined]] B. agrorum [[/underlined]] a few [[2 female symbols]]. [[underlined]] B. muscorum [[/underlined]] also a few [[2 female symbols]]. [[underlined]] B. jonellus [[/underlined]] 1 [[virgin female symbol]] (1st [[virgin female symbol]] seen 1936) seen at larch. [[underlined]] Psithyrus distinctus [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] frequent. [[underlined]] Andrena clarkella [[/underlined]], several faded [[2 female symbols]] still out. [[underlined]] A. cineraria [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] & 1 [[female symbol]] playing about at 4.30 PM. [[underlined]] A. albicans [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] jacobi [[/underlined]] seen, but only [[2 male symbols]] of latter. [[underlined]] Halictus rubicundus [[/underlined]] & other species seen. [[underlined]] Sphecodes monilicornis [[/underlined]] 1 very small [[female symbol]] running on birch. [[underlined]] Nomada leucophthalma [[/underlined]] at least 1 [[female symbol]] seen. [[underlined]] N. bifida & marshamella [[/underlined]] common. [[underlined]] Salius fuscus [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] common. [[underlined]] Vespa norvegica [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] gathering fibre on dead [[underlined]] Angelica [[/underlined]] [[underlined]] V. rufa & vulgaris [[/underlined]] [[2 female symbols]] both very common [[underlined]] Dolerus bimaculatus [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] only [[underlined]] D. nigratus, D. picipes [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] only [[underlined]] Loderus vestigialis [[/underlined]] 2 [[2 male symbols]]. [[underlined]] Athalia cordata [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] (seen for 1st time this year).