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27/5/37 cont.  Ratoath, ME cont.


27/5/37.  Found in bathroom, on window, 14 Clareville Rd., Dublin.
[[underlined]] Microplitis [[/underlined]] (? tuberculferum?) 1 [[male symbol]].


29th May 1937.  A perfect day!
In aft. drove Dr. & Mrs. Owen, of Liverpool Museum, to Ballynascorney Gap & walked up Slievenabawnoge Co. DU.  Swept a few insects near head of overflow channel, behind Slievenabawnoge, & also a few at head of stream (near cross) flowing into Bohernabreena valley.  All taken at 900 to 1150 ft.

[[underlined]] Bombus lucorum [[/underlined]] 2 [[female symbol]] [[female symbol]] seen at 1100 feet.
[[underlined]] Dolerus bimaculatus [[/underlined]] 1 large, dark, [[male symbol]] swept in marsh at Ballynascorney Gap:  probably my highest record for this sp.
[[underlined]] Stenomacrus [[/underlined]] 1 large [[male symbol]], cf. [[underlined]] tristis [[/underlined]] ?

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29/5/37 cont.  Slievenabawnoge, Co. DU. cont.

[[underlined]] Zootrephus [[/underlined]] "rufiventris" 1 [[male symbol]].
[[underlined]] Exochus anospilus [[/underlined]] Th.? black legs, swept on SE slope of hill att 1,150 ft.
[[underlined]] Euphorus pallipes [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[male symbol]]
[[underlined]] Apanteles [[/underlined]] fulvipes group 1 [[male symbol]].
[[underlined]] Opius apiculator [[/underlined]] ?? 1 small [[female symbol]].
[[underlined]] Aspilota [[/underlined]] sp.? 1 [[female symbol]], short, thick, antennae (18)
[[underlined]] Dacnusa areolaris [[/underlined]] ? [[male symbol]] with dark legs, but no sternauli
[[underlined]] D. maculipes [[/underlined]] ? [[female symbol]] with faint sternauli;  legs like last.
D. pubescens ? 1 [[female symbol]], with faint sternauli.


30th May 1937.  A very fine day, but too sunny & too breezy (W) for small insects:  with [[underlined]] J.A.J. Palmer [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] The Murrough, [[/underlined]] Co. WI., just S. of Newcastle station.
Almost all insects swept amongst the "feb cars", [[underlined]] Salix, Betula [[/underlined]], &c., 1/4 mile inland of the railway & 1/2 mile S. of road to station.

[[underlined]] Sphex lutaria [[/underlined]] 2 [[male symbol]] [[male symbol]] only seen by Palmer.
[[underlined]] Odynerus pictus [[/underlined]] 1 [[male symbol]] swept along shore
[[underlined]] Osmia aurulenta [[/underlined]] plentiful & quite fresh.
[[underlined]] Andrena wilkella [[/underlined]] 1 [[female symbol]] seen.
[[underlined]] Halictus [[strikethrough]] fugjenna [[/strikethrough]] nitidiusculus [[/underlined]] ? 1 [[female symbol]] seen.
[[underlined]] Sphecodes affinis [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]]
[[underlined]] Pompilus plumbeus [[/underlined]] seen by Palmer.
[[underlined]] Tachysphex pectinipes [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]].