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190./ 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 = 191./ 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).