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14/ 17th July, 1937. Very calm, dull & misty in morning, after a very wet night & everything dripping till after dinner when bright sun & a strong northerly breeze dried things up. Mist again in late evening. Curracloe, Co. WX. 11.0 till 1.30 (morning = "A.M."). Spent time in dunes S. of Strand Hotel road, but insects very scarce & shy. Most sent to BM. The following kept Dicondylus 1 [[female symbol]]. Hemiteles ? 1 [[female symbol]], with red legs & very black "knees". H.? 1 [[female symbol]] with shortish clouded wings. Cremastus geminus Common : 1 [[female symbol]] kept. 15./ 17.7.37 AM. cont Curracloe, WX cont. Meteorus leviventris? 1 [[male symbol]]. Platygaster ? 1 large, fat, [[female symbol]]. Chalcid: a beautiful green sp. with long tereba & huge calcar in mid tibiae, &c. (ca 1 line in length) 17.7.37 cont. 3.30 till 6.0 P.M. (afternoon = "P.M.") Spent time in dunes & edge of marsh N. of Strand Hotel road, but very windy & few insects seen, those taken being mainly swept. Dicondylus 1 [[female symbol]] Bombus lucoris & agrorum only, 1 or 2 workers of each seen. Vespa sylvestris 1 [[female symbol]] or large [[juvenile female symbol]] seen. Aritranis signatorius 1 [[female symbol]] on carrot in dunes. Aritranis elegans Devr. [[checkmark]] A.W.S. Aug. 15, 1937. A dark [[male symbol]] on carrot flower between sand hills & marsh: subsequently submitted to G.J. Kerrick, who agreed stated that it agreed with Devrigne's type in B.M., except in colour, & that this he had previously compared with Gravinhorst's type of d]] "Ichneumon leucopygus Ginv." in Berlin & that this is also synonymous & has priority. [[marginalia]] Recorded by Kerrick, 1939 (?) in his paper on this group! AWS. [[/marginalia]]