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26/ 21st July 1937. A wild day with S.W. gale after heavy rain & storm at night, moderating a little in evening. Much hot sun & few skiffs of rain but wind made collecting almost impossible. Spent morning in field below hotel & afternoon in sandhills & marsh at Curracloe; in evening walked along road to Skreen through moraine & examined various "kettle-holes" including the famous "Lough na-paesta," which I visited in March 1911 when "snail-hunting" & where Halbert took Lasius fuliginosus in 1935: see p.47 [[right arrow]] 21.7.37, morning & afternoon. (- Only 12 kept: these labelled 21/9/38 AWS). Field below hotel, sandhills & marsh (= 1, 2 & 3) Curracloe, Co. WX. 12 till 1.30; 3.0 till 6 P.M. Bombus distinguendus 1 [[juvenile female symbol]] at 1. B. derhamellus 1 [[juvenile female symbol]] at 1. B. muscorum 1 [[juvenile female symbol]] at 1. B. jonellus frequent at 1. B. lucorum frequent. B. hortorum ? 1 [[juvenile female symbol]] at 3. Megachile centuncularis [[male symbol, male symbol]] at 1: one kept [[checkmark]] Andrena denticulata [[female symbol, female symbol]] on ragwort at 1. A. wilkella 1 worn [[female symbol]] in bramble at 1. A. gwynana [[male symbol, male symbol]] (2d brand) on bramble at 1. 27./ 21/7/37, cont. Curracloe, WX. cont. Halictus rubicundus, calceatus, freygessneri &c. seen at 1. Sphecodes affinis & divisus (?) seen at 1. Vespa rufa 1 [[juvenile female symbol]] seen at 1. Odynerus parietinus 1 [[female symbol]] at 1; (nests of some spp. very common in district on walls, & on iron stays to wire fence round coast guards' observatory in dunes.) Pemphredon lethifer [[checkmark]] 1 on alder in marsh at 1. Crabro chrysostomus & varius at 1. Mellinus arvensis abundant, [[male symbol, male symbol]] & [[female symbol, female symbol]] at 1 (& 2) Pompilus rufipes seen at 2. Salius [[?caxtlatus]] [[male symbol, male symbol]] & 1 [[female symbol]] seen at 1. Tachysphex pectinips at 2. D. bellina 1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]]. Oxybelus uniglumis 1 [[[female symbol]] at 2. D. bellina 1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]]. [[left arrow]] Colletes picistigma at 2. Pachynematus clitellatus ? 2 [[female symbol, female symbol]] (1 sent Benson), 1 kept [[checkmark]]. Most icks sent to B.M. Ichneumon sarcitorius 1 [[male symbol]] on carrot at 3. I. gracilicornis 1 [[male symbol]]. [[checkmark]] Plants L. [[?hapeata]] &c.