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50/ 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] 51./ 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