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79) 4th November 1936. A dreadful afternoon, with torrents of rain (SW-W) & falling temperature, after a beautiful morning & 2 fine days. Glenasmole, Co. DU. 3.0 p.m. A few instects swept under trees near hut on W. side of lower reservoir, before the real rain came on & ruined everything. Had it not rained hymenoptera would evidently have been abundant. [[underlined]] Phygadeuon [[/underlined]] ? 1 small [[female symbol]], carded. [[underlined]] Pezomachus rufulus [[/underlined]] ? 6 [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]] in 2 sweeps: one kept, rest passed on to J.F. Perkins. [[underlined]] P. [[/underlined]] sp.? red, black head, smaller, near last sp. 1 [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Stenomacrus ventralis [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] [[male symbol]] & [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]] abundant but more [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]] than [[male symbol]] [[male symbol]]. [[underlined]] Dacnusa longiradialis [[/underlined]] 2 [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] D. aphanta [[/underlined]] [[checkmark]] 1 [[female symbol]]. [[underlined]] Aspilota [[/underlined]] small sp. 1 [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Blacus [[/underlined]] cf. humilis or [[?caelis]] ? 1 [[male symbol]] very small. [[underlined]] Aphidius [[/underlined]] cf. callipteri Marshall. 1 [[male symbol]] [[underlined]] Procto. [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]]. [[end page]] [[start page]] 80.) 18th Nov. 1936. A very fine, calm, mild day, after a clear frosty night & a fortnight, very wet weather - the first day I could have collected anything since 4th. [[underlined]] Slade of Saggart, Co. DU. [[/underlined]] 3.0 till 4.30 P.M. Everything soaking & only bracken, nettles, Meadow Sweet, thistles, &c. possible to sweep; most insects taken on bramble, with sucker, under trees where leaves were dry; others swept. [[underlined]] Dicaelotus [[/underlined]] pumilio? 1 [[female symbol]]. [[underlined]] Stilpnus gagates [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] only (sent to J.F. Perkins). [[underlined]] Phygadeuon [[/underlined]] ? small red & black sp. 3 [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]] (1 smaller than others!) [[underlined]] Pezomachus [[/underlined]] small sp. 1 [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Pimpla turionellae [[/underlined]] or flavicoxis? 1 [[female symbol]], sitting on bramble. [[underlined]] Plectiscids [[/underlined]] common: 14 taken:- [[underlined]] Aperileptus [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]], 2 [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Plectiscus communis [[/underlined]] ? 2 [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]] Plectiscus 3 others [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]] (? 2 spp.) [[underlined]] Proclitus [[/underlined]] ? 2 [[male symbol]] [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Proclitus [[/underlined]] ?? 1 beautiful male with entirely golden yellow antennae & pale coxae = possibly the unknown [[male symbol]] of [[underlined]] P. fulvicornis [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] [[male symbol]] [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]] Foest. AWS. 5/12/37. [[underlined]] Pantisarthrus [[/underlined]] 2 [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]].