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31st July - till 7th Aug. 1936. Garden, 14 Clareville Rd, Dublin: various times: mostly evening: weather mostly dull, stormy or wet, but 7th very fine, with hot sun.
[[underlined]] Bombus lucorum & agrorum [[/underlined]] till 7th Aug. [[2 virgin female symbols]].
[[underlined]] B. lapidarius [[/underlined]] till 31st or 2nd Aug but none seen on 7th. [[2 virgin female symbols]].
[[underlined]] Megachile centuncularis [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]] still in holes of clothes line post till 4th & one still there on 7th: 1 [[female symbol]] on 5th.
[[underlined]] M. willughbiella [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] seen in hole in post at 7 PM on 5th.
[[underlined]] Halictus "smeathmanellus [[/underlined]] Irish form", numerous [[2 male symbols]] at [[underlined]] Veronica spicata [[/underlined]] & several [[2 female symbols]], seen; latter investigating holes in old mortar of wall next Ellis's: 1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]] taken on 7/8.
[[underlined]] Odynerus parietum [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] on [[male?]] Fern, searching.
[[underlined]] Chrysis ignita [[/underlined]] still about post on 7th & as many as five seen in hole till about 3rd.
[[underlined]] Spilomena troglodytes [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]]. [[underlined]] Pemphredon lethifer [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] on 7/8.
Black sawfly on White Currant bush on 7/8.
= [[underlined]] Pristiphora pallipes [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]].
[[underlined]] Mesostenus transfuga [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[female symbol]] on 7/8.
Cryptids. 2 red [[2 male symbols]] on 7/8 =
[[sideways text, in box]] 31.7.36. Taken by E. O'Mahony at St. Anne's, Clontarf, DU.
[[underlined]] Pezomachus instabilis [[/underlined]] ? 2 [[2 female symbols]].
[[underlined]] Aspilota [[/underlined]] sp. large head. 1 [[female symbol]]
[[underlined]] Opius comatus [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[male symbol]]. [[/sideways text, in box]]
[[underlined]] Perithous divinator [[/underlined]], 2 [[2 female symbols]], one at W. Currant, other along Ellis's wall; on 7/8.
[[underlined]] Clistopyga sauberi [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] investigating holes in post on 7/8.
[[underlined]] Homocidus pictus [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]] on 7/8
[[underlined]] Bassus laetatorius [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] on 7/8.
[[underlined]] Omorga [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[female symbol]] on 7/8.
Small Chalcid about size of [[underlined]] Spilomena [[/underlined]].
Swifts still [[underlined]] screaming [[/underlined]] !

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183.)
[NB. For records E O'M. 4.8 & 9.8.36 see p. 181]
8th & 9th Aug. 1936. Garden, 14 Clareville Rd., DU. as before
[8th fine but dull in evening: 9th misty rain all morning, fine & some sun in aft. & early evening].
[[underlined]] Bombus agrorum & lucorum [[/underlined]] a few [[2 virgin female symbols]], & 1 [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] agrorum [[/underlined]] on 7th.
[[underlined]] Chrysis ignita [[/underlined]] 3 seen at one time on post.
[[underlined]] Crabro varius [[/underlined]], still a few about.
[[underlined]] Pemphredon lugubris [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] on currant bush on 8th at 9 AM.
[[underlined]] Megachile centuncularis [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] still about, but flying very weakly & not seen again.
[[underlined]] Vespa sylvestris [[/underlined]] 1 [[virgin female symbol]] seen: the second wasp seen in DU since return from holidays.
[[underlined]] Pteronidea ribesii [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]] swept off currant bush possibly [[underlined]] in cop. [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Homocidus pictus [[/underlined]] [[2 male symbols]]. not kept.
[[underlined]] Bassus laetatorius [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]]: not kept.
[[underlined]] Aphidius [[/underlined]] cf [[underlined]] matricariae [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] at black currant bush.
[[underlined]] Myrmica ruginodis [[/underlined]] Many winged [[2 male symbols]] & [[2 virgin female symbols]] running about clump of [[underlined]] Sax. hypnoides [[/underlined]] on W. side of back garden where colony has been since 1920. No winged forms ever seen before & no [[2 female symbols]] captured on this date.
Swifts on 8th at 8 PM. [[underlined]] None [[/underlined]] on evening of 9th.
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10th 12th Aug. 1936. Garden as on 8th & 9th.
[[underlined]] Spilomena troglodytes [[/underlined]] on 10th watched (a [[female symbol]] ?) one running about post for a long time
[[underlined]] Pemphredon lugubris [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] seen entering hole in post.
[[underlined]] Chrysis ignita [[/underlined]] Three seen on post at one time. [[underlined]] Crabro clavipes [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] seen.
[[underlined]] Odynerus parietum [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] again seen hunting over a fern.
[[underlined]] Halictus smeathmanellus [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] seen on [[underlined]] Veronica spicata [[/underlined]].
[[underlined]] Vespa germanica [[/underlined]] 1 [[virgin female symbol]] seen on 12th at 7 pm: 1st [[virgin female symbol]] of this species seen in garden 1936
[[underlined]] Omorga [[/underlined]] - [[female symbol]] & [[underlined]] Angitia [[/underlined]] - [[male symbol]] on 10th.
Moth. - in snail-box on 12th: probably out of oat meal supplied snails!