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32./ 23rd July 1937. A fine afternoon & evening after a terribly wet night & rain at intervals till dinner time (1:30 PM.). Did not go out till after dinner, then walked along shore almost to Blackwater Harbour & back & collected a few insects in parks & on sands, blown off cliffs, including a [[female symbol]] Chasmodon apterus (subsequently lost out of sucker!) found by George. In evening explored the moraine country between Curracloe, Blackwater & Screen, & worked kettle-hole near Kilmacoe, Ballinesker, & Lough-na-peesta. Saw also some very nice ground between Blackwater & Screen & in sand pit at highest point of road took a fine marine shell (= ) & some fragments. 33 23.7.37, aft. 5 P.M, -Labelled Strand N. of Curracloe Co. WX. AWS. 23.7.37.] Strand 1/2 mile S. of Blackwater Harbour, Co. WX. A few insects taken in pool or in sands. Aspilota very black sp. 1 [[male symbol]] = cf. nigrescens miki, 2nd brood? Chasmodon apterus] 1 [[female symbol]] found by George; but subsequently lost in blowing dirt out of sucker. Aphaereta sp ? 1 [[female symbol]]: terebra as long as abd. : 24-seg. antennae. Pentapleura pumilio 1 [[female symbol]]. Mesochorus very small sp. 1 [[female symbol]]. Six small Proctos = [Only 11 kept: these labelled 27.9.1938. A.W.S.] 23.7.37, evening. "Kettle-hole" in field near old church of Kilmacor, Ballinesker, Co. WX. 7:30 PM. G.M.S. & A.W.S. 5 Chaenusa n. sp. (= C. opaca A.W.S.): Nixon agrees it is n. sp. Chaenusa in litt. ...8.37. 2] Gyrocampa = Ametria h. sp. (= G. striola A.W.S.) Nixon agrees it is n. sp. Gyrocampa in litt. ...8.37. Pentapleura pumilio 1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]] (mtd. on same card). Hemiteles sp. 2 [[male symbol, male symbol]] (carded), one with reddish the other with blackish abdomen: otherwise similar =. [Only 11 kept: these labelled 27.9.1938. A.W.S.]