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2. 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 ♀ 3) 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 =
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♀ = female ♂ = male