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128./ 24th Sept. 1937. Very damp & close, warm, with "drip" at intervals & rain at night. Everything wet & few places possible to sweep. 2.30-5.0 P.M. Kilteel district, Co. KD 1 = roadside at 1st glen S. of DU-KD border on road from Rathcoole to Kilteel. 2 = roadside along Woolpack Road W. of Kilteel. Exolytus 1 ([[female symbol]] ?) at 2. 11 from 1 } 24 from 2 } labelled 17/4/39 et seq. A.W.S. Polyblastus 1 (? [[male symbol]]) at 1 Zootrephus "rufiventris" 1 [[female symbol]] at 1. Stenomacrus curvicaudatus 1 [[female symbol]] at 2. St. cf. morionellus ? 1 [[female symbol]] at 2. St. minutus ? 1 [[female symbol]] at 2. Miomeris aquisgranensis 1 [[male symbol]] at 2. Blacus ruficornis 1 [[female symbol]] at 1. Opius cingulatus 1 [[female symbol]] at 1. O. irregularis 1 [[female symbol]] at 1. 129./ 24/9/37 cont. Kilteel district, KD. Adelura flaviventris 1 [[female symbol]] at 1. Aspilota 3 [[female symbol, female symbol]] at 1 = A. rubripes (Chosen as type 22/4/39. AWS.) 1 [[female symbol]] with 16 seg. ant. & a small [[female symbol]] with 15 seg. AWS. 22.4.1939. A. latidens 1 [[female symbol]] with 20 seg. ant. Aspilota 1 [[male symbol]], 7 [[female symbol, female symbol]] at 2 = A. very small black legs 19 seg. antennae 1 [[male symbol]] = 2nd brood cf. nigrescens?} A. latidens 2 [[female symbol, female symbol]], ant. 20 seg: = A. rubripes 2 [[female symbol, female symbol]] with 16 & 2 [[female symbol, female symbol]] with 15 seg. ant. A. cf. vesparum, small, 1 [[female symbol]], with 17 seg ant Dacnusa bellina 1 [[male symbol]] at 2. D. cyclops 1 [[male symbol]] at 2. D. pubescens 1 [[female symbol]] at 2. D. melanocera 1 [[female symbol]] at 2. D. affinis 1 [[female symbol]] at 2. Ametria uliginosa 1 [[female symbol]] at 2. Cynipid 1 at 2 = Procto, "bobby" sent to Nixon for report at 2 = 3 at 1 = 4 at 2 = 26th Sept. 1937. Opened with the usual drizzle as wind from S.E. arose to meet the W. wind; falling glass indicated approach of a depression: cleared in Dublin but dripped all day towards the hills & no drying. Drove in increasing drizzle to Russborough House, beyond Blessington & then turned home. Here, in Co. KD, swept one [[female symbol]] Pezomachus under trees by roadside. On return to Dublin at 12.30 noon on finding it had cleared, set off for Phoenix Park & in spite of wet grass, &c., did several hours sweeping in the Furry Glen: many small insects, especially Proctos, out.