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12.8.37 aft. cont.
Roadside on Co. Kildare side of DK-DU boundary, N. of Lyons House, Co. KD.  4.0 till 4.30 P.M.

Phygadeuon sp.  1, small, brachypterous [[female symbol]].
Thersilochus cf.  1 [[female symbol]], blackish

[10 only kept, these labelled 3/12/38. A.W.S.]

Meteorus pulchricornis  1 [[male symbol]].
Centistes lucidator  1 [[male symbol]]
Opius irregularis  1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]]
Aspilota radialis  1 [[male symbol]].
A. sp.  1 [[female symbol]], cf. cynipidis?
Dacnusa elegantula  1 [[male symbol]]
Exallonys  1 [[female symbol]], short antennae.


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15th August 1937.  Much cooler after thunder & very heavy rain on 13th & a cool windy day on 14th.  Fine sunny morning with cool W. breeze & much very hot sun.  Few insects out & collecting very disappointing : then showers from 12.30 onwards, becoming more frequent & ending collecting during early afternoon.

Drove to Emo Park & collected for 1/2 hour before heavy shower in sandpit & lane to bog N. of Emo Park lake; then on to back entrance to Woodbrook House, at Mountmellick branch of canal, 3 miles S. of Portarlington & collected in scrub & along boundary ditch of estate & in gravel pit E. of same, where recent excavation has almost completely destroyed all the great bee colonies.  All in Queen's Co.

Aculeates not looked for but the following are worth noting:-

Nomada argentata  1 [[female symbol]] at small bank not recently disturbed in sandpit N.E. of Woodbrook House, QC.
Spilomena troglodytes  1 [[female symbol]] swept at Woodbrook Ho. in marshy spot where much Ranunculus Flammula grew & in flower, a connection between flower & wasp already noted at Glengarriff (1935) & Edenvale, WX, 1937.