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54./ 29.7.37 aft. 3.0 till 5.30 P.M. Doo Lough & adjoining kettle holes in moraine, 2 miles NW of village of Curracloe, Co. Wx. - The Homopteran Livia juncorum very common in this afternoon's sweeping! AWS. [46 insects kept & these labelled 15/10/38! AWS. [At labelling time with this lot was a [[female symbol]] Colletes picistigma; yet I cannot believe I took this inland & so have labelled it merely "Curracloe" & not "Doo L., Curracloe"! AWS 15/10/38] Lasius fuliginosus [[virgin female symbol, virgin female symbol]] common on alders, &c. growing round small, dirty, swampy, kettle-hole behind cottage a little W. or N.W.(?) of Doo Lough: an equally queer habitat for the species to that discovered by Halbert at L-na-peasta. Crabro varius [[male symbol]]. Very small specimen frequent, with last. Dolerus palustris swept on marshy edge, E. of L. Doo. (? a 2nd brood) Ametastegia glabrata 1 [[male symbol]] Dicaclotus ? 1 [[male symbol]]. Cratocryptus cf. parrulus ? [[male symbol]]: very nice. Cryptid? red, small, 1 [[male symbol]] Cryptus sp. red, white scutellum, 1 [[male symbol]] Homocidus signatus 2 [[male symbol, male symbol]]. Meloboris sp. 1 [[male symbol]]. Gen. et sp.? 1 [[male symbol]], very interesting, 4mm, ant. 18-setmented, 8th seg. emarginate beneath, basal segments of abd. sculptured, nervuration as in Stenomacrus (i.e. areola more [[?punstigorm]]), put in box with Plectercids! AWS. 16/10/38. Bracon fulvipes 2 [[male symbol, male symbol]], 3 [[female symbol, female symbol]], mtd. on same card. B. epitriplus ? 1 [[female symbol]] Microgaster globatus 1 [[female symbol]]. Opius irregularis ? 1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]]. Opius n. sp. near lugens, but red legs, short terebra, &c. 2 [[female symbol, female symbol]] one the type Aspilota? (cf. Phaenocarpa!) 1 small [[male symbol]], short 16-seg. ant., very wide head, red petiole & base of abdomen, 4th seg. of ant. slightly longer than 3rd, I think = Type of G. semi-rufa miki. AWS 16.10.1938 [[marginalia]] Also Dacnusa affinis 1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]]. Ametria ulignosa 1 [[male symbol]] & 2 [[female symbol, female symbol]], one of latter very small & with ant. only 19 segmented. Proctos. 6, very small spp. Conostymus &c. [[/marginalia]] 55/ 29.7.37 evening. 7.30-8.0 P.M. Kettle-hole (no.1) in field near old church of Kilmacoe, Ballinesker, Co. WX. Dacnsa sp. raissa [[?pomp]]? 1 [[female symbol]] Ametria ulignosa 2 [[female symbol, female symbol]]. Ametria striola miki. 2 [[male symbol, male symbol]], 2 [[female symbol, female symbol]] taken by A.W.S. & G.M.S. Chaenusa opaca miki. 1 [[male symbol]] Pezomachus red & black sp. 1 [[female symbol]] [[strikethrough]] Nemeritis [[/strikethrough]] ? 1 [[male symbol]] (10 labelled 17/10/38! AWS.) 29.7.37 evening cont. 8.30 till 9.0 P.M. Site of ruined cottage, S.E. of Lough-na-peeste, Curracloe, Co. WX. as on 27th. (Only 47 kept: p.t.o. [[right arrow]]) Helorus anomalipes ?. No less than 12 swept in first sweep of old grass-covered "court-yard" of cottage & four more in same place a few minutes later. Subsequently several watched apparently asleep on apex of nodes of grass & rush leaves, & another swept in boggy field lower down valley leading to Curracloe RC Chapel beside small "duck-pond" (= kettle hole.