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211./ 4th May 1938. Cold, mainly sunny, with very strong & cold E-NE wind. Very draughty & few insects out. Slade of Saggart, Co. DU. Very many small bees seen on Dandelion flowers at head of glen, where more sheltered, but none examined carefully. One Andrena gwynana [[female symbol]] seen on Primrose flowers! Rhogogaster ancupariae 1 [[male symbol]] } Also black sp. white legs [[female symbol]] } sent to B.M. [Almost all icks, &c., sent to B.M.] [Only 10 kept & these labelled 4.12.39. AWS.] The following only kept:- Bracon epitriptus [[checkmark]] 2 [[male symbol, male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]]. Meteorus deceptor ? 1 [[male symbol]] Aspilota vulgarus ? 1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]], with 23 & 18 seg. ant. respectively A. rufata ? 1 [[female symbol]], 18-seg. ant. Synaldis parvicornis 1 [[female symbol]], very black, 15 seg. ant., wide head. Dacnusa laevipectus 1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]] with 23 & 24 seg. ant. respectively. D. longiradialis [[male symbol]] } D. aphanta 1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]] } Monoctonus caricis } Proctos [[?anmtris]] } Sent to B.M. 212./ 8th May 1938. A fine, cold day, with NE-E breeze: sunny in morning & after 3.30 P.M. but quite dull from noon till 3.30. Everything very dry & insects scarce. Whitethroat singing at Bohernabreena, but no Swifts seen this day & none seen by me since 1st May. Cuckoo heard in afternoon. Glenasmole, Co. DU. Noon till 4.30 PM Worked across lower dam & along E. side of lower reservoir above the coombs to upper dam (= 1); then swept the flat near Moore's garden & round about (= 2). Too cold & draughty to collect along W. side of lower reservoir. Bees very abundant after sun came out, especially on a chestnut tree near the "ford" at Moore's garden, where all sorts of Andrena & Nemada [[male symbol, male symbol]] were sunning themselves at 4 PM. Saw nothing special in Aculeate line. Willow sawflies just coming out & a few swept, but sun hidden when I was in "willow glade", except for one blink, during which I caught a [[male symbol]] Pteronidea with orange head &c.