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WESTERN TRIP Aug. 1938.

30th July 1938. Left Dublin by car at 10.20 AM.  After nearly 24 hour rain & still drizzling  SE-SW pm.  After Mullingar little or no rain but everything wet & land & even main road in places under water.  

Stopped for lunch (1.0 to 2.15 P.M.) on road at N. end of Castle Forbe demesne, LF, I tried sweeping birch & ? in scrub & took a few insects.  Next stopped for petrol at Boyle and at Hollyhook Ho. on W. side of L. Arrow, for afternoon tea & found the woods & ? almost dry & slept for an hour 4 till 5 P.M  Then on to Tullaghan, where stayed at Miss Eccles' as before. 

1 till 2:15 P.M.
Scrub & plantation by road at N. end of Castle Forbes demesne, Co. LF. 
[22 kept & then labelled C forbes, Co. LF. & c 25.2.1940. AWS]

Bombus lucorum  One old worn ♀ still flying.
2 sawflies: = Selandria cinercipes  1 ♂
& Ametastegia equiseti:  1 ♀



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30.7.38, 1 till 2 P.M., Castle Forbes, LF. cont.

Hemiteles, 1 sp., small ♀, =
Pezomachus rufulus ?  1 ♀ .
Orthocentrus cf. frontator ?  1 ♂ .
Exochus pictus  1
Adelognathus dorsalis, 1 very beautiful ♀.
Symplecis xanthostoma ?  1 ♂ agrees well!  AWS. 25/2/40.
Helictus  1 ♂
Plectiscus  2 ♀♀.

Bracon cf. macrura?  1 ♀: same as ♀ taken at Travalua on 30/7/33!!  A.W.S. 25/2/40.
Clinocentrus  1 ♂
Dacnusa areolaris ♂ ♂ & ♀ ♀ abundant (none kept.)
D. laevipectus?  1 ♀ freshly emerged, badly damaged; not kept.
Exallonyx  1 ♀.
Phenoserphus  1 ♂
Diafriid ?, 2 brachypterus ♀, very nice, red & black antennae with very transverse antinnal segments [pencil drawing of segments] = 

Proctos: others: 3 = 

Dipteron =
Jumping beetle = 

Transcription Notes:
♀ = female ♂ = male