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7.6.38 AM. cont.

Sawfly:  Loderus vestigialis  1 special [[male symbol]].


7.6.38.  Taken in hotel, Portballintrae, AN.
Pimpla turionellae group.  1 [[male symbol]].


7.6.38. P.M.  Strong W.-SW wind to gale, with two heavy showers which spoiled collecting.

Driven by Mr & Mrs. Agnew of Belfast via Ballintoy & Ballycastle to Murlough Bay.  Spent a few minutes at head of wood there sweeping under trees & took a few icks & one Aspilota.  No doubt this would well repay working.

[8 labelled 10/1/40!  A.W.S.]

Dolerus picipes  1 [[male symbol]].
Allantus tener ?  1 [[male symbol]].
Cryptid [[male symbol]] =
Phygadeum  [[female symbol]] =
Leptocryptus  1 [[male symbol]]
" [[ditto for Leptocryptus]]  1 [[female symbol]].
"Nemeritis" transfuga ?  1 [[male symbol]] = Phaedroctonus t.
Aspilota cf. curticauda  1 [[female symbol]], rather small & slender & terebra rather long.


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8th June 1938.  A beautiful day spoiled by frequent & terrific showers of rain & hail.

In morning, which promised very fine, walked by Bushfoot sandhills to lane past Ballytaylor Huse ( in. Ord. Map.) to Dundarase & Bushmills, where arrived scarcely a minute before the first shower.  During interval between first & second shower tried a little sweeping in most sheltered spots under trees:  then second shower, with heavy hail, ended collecting.  During second shower I saw what looked like a large Alysiid alight in front of me & just got my net out in time to catch it as it departed.  This proved to be a fine [[male symbol]] Dacnusa petiolaris Nees, the first ex. I have taken of this species & so far as I know only the second taken in Ireland - the first being in coll. of late Rev. W.F. Johnson in Nat. Mus., Dublin, where I discovered it only a few months ago.  Haliday's specimens were sent him from England by Curtis & Walker.  Between 2nd & 3rd shower we reached tramway bridge & [[?lower]] between 3rd & 4th.  In afternoon showers were too frequent to allow anything to dry & the only collecting