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219./ 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?