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3.11.37 cont.  Glenasmole, DU. cont.

Aperileptus sp. 1 ?  2 [[female symbol, female symbol]].
A. sp. ??  1 [[female symbol]].
Plectiscus ?  sp.?  1 [[male symbol]], 4 [[female symbol, female symbol]].
Proclitus ?  1 [[female symbol]].
Biosteres carbonarius ?  1 [[male symbol]].
Aspilota rufata ?  1 [[male symbol]].
A. surcularia ?  1 [[male symbol]], var. with black neuration.
Dacnusa affinis  2 [[female symbol, female symbol]].
D. longiradialis  1 [[female symbol]].
Proctos.  2.

1 [[male symbol]], 2 [[female symbol, female symbol]] Nematine sawflies bred from larvae taken on poplar in the Bride's Glen, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin 1936 by D.A.A. Lisney;  emerged 1937 but not discovered till long dead.  Relaxed & set in Nov. 1937 = 


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Bred Aspilotae 1937.

During August 1937 & following information received from Fr. P. O'Kelly, S.J. I made & set several traps on the window sills of my room in the Museum or on table inside an open window - both worked equally well.  The traps - jam jars! - were baited with (1) a dead mouse, (2) a small dead fish, & after a few days Phorids appeared & ran about over the paper cover of the jars.  When a small hole was made in the covers the Phorids quickly found their way in.  A few more days later [[female symbol]] Aspilotae arrived & found their way into the jars where the Phorids had been egg laying & where the Aspilotae appeared to settle down to await the time when the Phorid larvae were old enough to oviposit in.  This was not witnessed;  but a month later the new (F') generation of Phorids began to appear & almost simultaneously [[male symbol]] Aspilotae appeared, followed a few days later by [[female symbol, female symbol]];  these emerged from 27th Sept. onwards.  What was probably another generation of Aspilotae appeared in the spring of 1938!  All belong to what I call Aspilota vesparum (= the A. nervosa of Marshall, non Haliday).