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22.8.37 cont.  Tonelagee & L. Ouler, Co. WI. cont.

Aphidius many small [[male symbol, male symbol]] but only 1 small [[female symbol]], with black legs & broken ant., kept.
Monoctonus caricis ? a testaceous [[male symbol]]: probably immature!  A.W.S. 1940.
Ephedrus validus  1 [[female symbol]].
Proctos.  1 kept. = 

The only aculeatus seen were:  Bombus lucorum [[male symbol, male symbol]] abundant;  B. jonellus [[juvenile symbol, juvenile symbol]] at 1,200 to 1,500, some fresh & busy;  B. agrorum a few jaded specimens probably but no surely identified;  & this in spite of the fact that the Calluna & other heathers were just at their best & full of pollen.

Vespa norregica  1 [[male symbol]] at 1,500
V. rufa  1 [[juvenile symbol]] beside car on road at 1,200 ft.

Sawfly:  Pachynemetus ?  1 [[male symbol]] at 1 (carded).

Ophion [[male symbol]] taken at light in evening at Dollymount, DU. by E.O. Mahony on 22.8.1937.  Also some spp. in St. Anne's, see p.100 [[right arrow]]


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25th August 1937.  A dull drizzling morning, with wind swinging from N.W. to N.E. & finally E;  but afternoon quite fine & small insects numerous, though sweeping impossible in may good places & in all open to sky.

3.0 till 5.30 P.M.  Glenasmole, Co. DU.  Three areas swept as follows:
1 = Under trees on W. side of Cowm reservoir near hut
2 = Under trees between Mr. Moore's house & upper dam.
3 = Swept by George under trees on W. side of Upper reservoir.
(Almost all taken sent to B.M. at least 200)

Bombus lucorum, agrorum, muscorum, lapidarius seen by George.
Prithyrus campestris 1 fresh [[female symbol]] seen.
Halictus albipes  2 [[male symbol, male symbol]] taken by George on head of old flower of Plantago lanceolata.
Ichneumon lugens  1 [[male symbol]] taken by George.

[Total 78.  Kept 37 from 1, 35 from 2, & 6 from 3: these labelled 26/12/38 et seq.]

Epitomus pygmaeus  2 [[male symbol, male symbol]]
Cremnodes atricapillies  2 very small [[female symbol, female symbol]], one at 1, the other at 2.
Pezomachus rufulus  [[female symbol, female symbol]] & ?? [[male symbol, male symbol]]: 1 wingless [[male symbol]] kept from 1 & another wingless [[male symbol]] also from 1.
P. .... 1 [[female symbol]] at 1
P. sp.  1 [[female symbol]] at 1.
Microcryptus nigrocinctus  1 small [[female symbol]] at 2.
M. sp. brachypterus  1 [[female symbol]] at 1