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287./ = Trim district! 3 7 38 cont. R. Boyne, below Trim, ME., cont. Dacnus sp.? 1 [[male symbol]], 30-seg. ant, dark red legs, stout short stigma, no stern side Proctos. 2 = 5th July 1938. A [[female symbol]] of Bombus muscorum, fresh looking, seen in front garden at Snapdragon on return to 14 Clareville Rd, Dublin, at 5.30 P.M. Very showery day. 288./ SCOTTISH TRIP 7th-15th JULY. Left Dublin 6.30 p.m. on 7th July 1938 in terrific rain, which had lasted all day in Dublin, & blowing hard from NE-E. Arrived Greenock at 9 AM on 8th July & went by the Lucy Ashton to Garelochhead, Dunbartonshire, where arrived at 12.15 & stayed at Woodlea Hotel. In afternoon walked N. to Whistlefield to point where it looked down on junction of Lochs Goil & Long. Collected a little on way up & down, but main vegetation too dripping wet after the night's rain & subsequent skiffs. Very few insects seen, except small Dips. Later went by bus to Helensburgh where met George who had come up from London by Royal Scott. Heavy rain again came on in the evening. Gareloch-head to Whistlefield & Loch Dumbartonshire, 8/7/38. 2.30-4.30 PM. = DN. Triclistus podagricus ? var. with red or almost red legs: 2 Exolytus cf. filicornis Thoms. ? 1 [[male symbol]]. Opius pygmaeator ? 2 [[female symbol, female symbol]]. Aspilota cf. sp. 4 like 3 ? ant. all black! 1 [[male symbol]] A. brevissimicornis miki 1 [[female symbol]]. AWS. 25/1/39 cf. [[female symbol]] Type from Travalua, SL, AWS. 10.7.36. Myrmica ruginodis [[juvenile symbol, juvenile symbol]] (one kept) Aphidius ulmi ? 1 small [[female symbol]]. (9 labelled 22/1/39)