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23rd June 1936.  A day of terriffic thunder showers with only one really dry interval, in the forenoon.  Spent most of the day clearing off arrears & did not collect outside.  In house took 1 Mymarid on window & 1 [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] Spathius exarator [[/underlined]] on table in bed-room.


24th June 1936.  A dull day & not so warm as the previous few days:  everything very wet in morning after some histy rain early & the previous day's downpour, so that a little sweeping only was possible in late afternoon.  Spent day in 3 spells - 1 = 11.0 AM till 1.30 P.M., 2 = 3.0 till 4.30 P.M.;  3= 5.30 till 7.30 P.M. - working gardens & plots round stable yard at [[underlined]] The Lodge, Tullaghan, Co. Leitrim. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] Bombus agrorum [[/underlined]] [[unisex symbol]] [[unisex symbol]] & [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]].
[[underlined]] B. muscorum [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] seen.
[[underlined]] B. lucorum & hortorum [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]], but 1 [[unisex symbol]] of [[underlined]] lucorum [[/underlined]] seen in garden on evening of 22/6/36.
[[underlined]] Vespa rufa [[/underlined]] 1 [[unisex symbol]] seen on flowers of [[underlined]] Aegopodium [[/underlined]] [[unisex symbol]]
[[underlined]] Crabro dimidiatus [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]] seen & one entering hole in small garden wall S. of house.

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24/6/36 cont.  The Lodge, Tullaghan, Co. Leitrim cont.

[[underlined]] Chrysis ignita [[/underlined]] 2 seen in bored apple stump.
[[underlined]] Pteronidea ribesii [[/underlined]] many larvae on gooseberries & 1 [[male symbol]] of this sp. taken on currant bush, at 1.
[[underlined]] Athalia lineolata [[/underlined]] var [[underlined]] libertoides [[/underlined]] ? & [[underlined]] cordata [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] both taken at 1.
[[underlined]] Icks [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Epitomus pygmaeus [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[female symbol]] at 3.
Cryptids about a dozen - 7 at 3.  = [[underlined]] Hemiteles [[/underlined]] ? 1 very small [[male symbol]], carded, at 1.  H. sp.? 1 [[male symbol]] at 1.
[[underlined]] Hemitele [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[female symbol]] at 2 (carded.)
[[underlined]] Pezomachus [[/underlined]] 3 [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]], 3 spp. (1 very small! - at 3.) = P. sp.?  1 small [[female symbol]] at 1.
P. sp red 1 [[female symbol]] at 3.  
[[underlined]] P. [[/underlined]] sp.? blackish, very small 1 [[female symbol]] at 3.
[[underlined]] Orthocentrus radialis [[/underlined]] [[checkmark]] 1 [[female symbol]] at 2.
[[underlined]] Stenomacrus [[/underlined]] sp. 1 small [[male symbol]] (cf. [[underlined]] pallipes [[/underlined]])
Polyblastus pastoralis 1 [[male symbol]], red & black at 1.
[[underlined]] [[?Mesthium]] [[/underlined]] sp. [[male symbol]] on currant bush at 1.
[[underlined]] Mesochorus [[/underlined]] 2 spp? 1 [[male symbol]] [[female symbol]], [[?testaccorn]] from 3 carded.
Campophyids about six.

Transcription Notes:
paragraph 2, it says "histy" rain. could it be misty?