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204./ 6th April 1938. A perfect spring day, very hot sun, with cool, but gentle E breeze. Spent afternoon in back garden, 14 Clareville Rd., Harold's Cross, Dublin, gardening & feeding snails. Saw in garden: Peacock Butterfly. Bombus lucorum [[female symbol, female symbol]] at Mediterranean Heath, Currant trees & Cabbage flowers. B. agrorum [[female symbol]] at Currant trees. B. jonellus [[female symbol]] once on Black Currant tree & later at Mediterranean Heath. Andrena albicans 1 [[male symbol]] seen. Halictus leucopus 1 [[female symbol]] seen on wall Vespa vulgaris 1 [[female symbol]] sunning herslef on currant. 8th April 1938. Another fine sunny day: E. wind. At 6.15 P.M. a [[female symbol]] Bombus lucorum very busy in back garden at Cabbage flowers: obviously working! A [[female symbol]] Bombus terrestris in motor house at same time & put out. George reported a [[female symbol]] Bombus lapidarius on Cabbage in back garden in afternoon. 205./ 10th April 1938. Another perfect day so far as sun went, not a cloud or haze, but strong E. wind blowing down the glen & so small insects very scarce. Glenasmole, Co. DU. noon till 4 P.M. A few insects swept on lower dam & under trees on W. side of lower reservoir where some shelter. Bombus hortorum [[female symbol]] seen repeatedly at Primrose flowers on bank in the "nettle glade" below dam 2. B. agrorum & lucorum [[female symbol, female symbol]] frequent. [B. terrestris [[female symbol]] believed seen by George] Bombus muscorum 1 fresh [[female symbol]] on Dandelion. Psithyrus distinctus several [[female symbol, female symbol]] seen. Andrena nigroaenea 1 [[male symbol]] by river near road. A. albicans [[male symbol, male symbol]] & [[female symbol, female symbol]] very common near Mrs. Doyle's. Nomada leucophthalma [[male symbol, male symbol]] seen in "willow glade". [Did not visit the real bee banks!] Dolerus nigratus 2 [[male symbol, male symbol]] below lower dam & lower down glen. Nematine sp.? 1 [[female symbol]] swept under trees, west of reservoir. Hemiteles sp. 1 [[female symbol]], small, sent to B.M. Cryptid ? 1 red [[male symbol]], broad areolet: kept. Pimpla brevicornis 1 [[male symbol]] at gorse flowers: to BM.