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13/5/38 cont.  Glenasmole, cont.

Dacnusa gilvipes  2 [[male symbol, male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]], not kept.
D. n. sp. 3 [[male symbol, male symbol]], 28, 29 & 30 seg. ant., stigma merging into heavy meta carp.  [[image - drawing]]
D. laevipectus ?  several [[male symbol, male symbol]], 2 very large [[female symbol, female symbol]] ? at 2, 1 kept.  Same sp.

D. maculipes  1 fine [[female symbol]], not kept.

Aphidius:  several, but not kept.
Ephedrus [[?hirticornis]] [[male symbol]].  Type of n. sp., at 2.  - A.W.S. 9/12/39.  [[left arrow]] Probably only a freak of E. lacertosus!  AWS. 1940
Proctos.  1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]] like aculeator Hal., but ?


15th May 1938.  A damp day after the long drought had broken:  heavy rain in Dublin, light misty rain in morning, otherwise fine in Devils Glen.

The "rise" of insects stupendous following first rain & rise of temperature after long dry spell with cold winds;  but collecting hampered by wet vegetation.  

[On way stopped for a few minutes at Kilmashogue Marsh opposite Sugarloaf, Co. WI., & there took a [[female symbol]] of the big black & red daddy-long-legs ( )]

Drove with A.M. Gwynn (in his car!) to Devil's Glen, Co. WI., & worked up glen to Z road below fall & back again to car.  Up journey 2.0 till 4.0 P.M. = 1, return down glen 4.0 till 5.30 = 2


15/5/38 cont.  Devils Glen, WI, cont.

Bombus agrorum & lucorum [[female symbol, female symbol]] only Bumbles seen.
Nomada [[?menhamella]] [[female symbol]] seen.
Pompilus spissus [[male symbol]] spotted by MDS on road just above upper elbow of Z road & about 30 yards above sand-pit where I took this sp. first in June 1921.

[35 from 1 & 23 from 2 labelled 12-13-12-1939! AWS.]

[Formica rufa.  No trace of this ant at old nest near Z road, where I have watched the colony dwindle since 1922, thought it was still there in May 1937.  No winged specimens have ever been seen at this next, 1922-1937.  There is just a faint hope that the colony may have moved somewhere else.]

Antaeon sp. pale antennae =  1 [[male symbol]] at 1, & 1 [[male symbol]] at 2.
A. sp. black antennae =  1 [[male symbol]] at 1.

Sawflies.  Macrophya punctatumalbum  1 [[female symbol]] taken by A.M. Gwynn half-way up glen.  This is the 3rd Irish specimen I know of.
Athalia spp. seen.
Small black sp. taken in Beech with sucker, by stream just above ruined gate-lodge & below Z road at 1 = Euura [[female symbol]]
Nematine [[female symbol]] at 1 = Lygaeonematus laricis?