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28th July 1937.  A very fine day, almost all sunny, with cool on-shore breeze.  Did not go out till afternoon, but then drove to Ballyteige Burrows on south coast, West of Kilmore Quay.  Drove from Park through fields & crossed estuary by the "Bank of the Cull" & worked dunes from that to sea & for a mile to the west.  3.30 till 8.0 P.M.

Ballyteige Burrows, Co. WX.

Bombus lucorum, agrorum, lapidarius & muscorum. 
Megachile maritime [[female symbol, female symbol]] seen & one watched bringing home bits of cut leaves to a nest in Willows in dunes.
Colletes picistigma common.
Astata stigma frequent.
Pompilus plumbeus & gibbus seen.
Ceropales maculatus seen.
Crabro several seen.

[Only 42 kept, 7 taken by George & 35 taken by AWS, these labelled 12-13-10-1938! AWS]



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28.7.37 cont.  Ballyteige, WX., cont.

Lasius flavus nests on "bank of the Cull"
L. niger in dunes.
Myrmica scabrinodis frequent in dunes: [[male symbol, male symbol]], [[female symbol, female symbol]] & [[juvenile symbol, juvenile symbol]].
Tetramorium caespitum only seen here & there & mostly "in bed" apparently
Bethylus fuscicornis 1 [[female symbol]] (sent to B.M.)
Antaeon 1 [[female symbol]].
Chelonus 2 [[male symbol, male symbol]], 2 [[female symbol, female symbol]] (mtd. on same card) which agree best with Marshall's carbonarius
Bracon nigratus 2 [[male symbol, male symbol]].
Aphantilesd]] black sp. (to BM.)
Perilutus sp. common, [[male symbol, male symbol]] all black, [[female symbol, female symbol]] red head & thorax: 2 [[male symbol, male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]] taken by George kept: 2 [[male symbol, male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]] taken (& kept) by A.W.S.
Orgilus obscurator 1 small [[female symbol]] taken by George:  1 larger by A.W.S.
Meteorus albicornis ?? 1 [[male symbol]]
M. cinctellus ? 1 [[female symbol]]
Opius [[strikethrough]] G? sp. Nox. [[/strikethrough]] AWS 12/10/1938!  2 fine [[female symbol, female symbol]] on inner edge of dunes at high tide where Lycopsis [[strikethrough]] curopaus [[/strikethrough]] arvensis? growing on edge of mud flat.  These have 2nd