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8th August, 1938.  

Wind alternating W & E! very light.  Dull & drizzling all day after we left Tullaghan.  Drove via Sligo to Doonee Rock & then round L. Gill, via Dromahair & Slish Wood.
Collecting practically impossible, but did a little at Doonee Rock, Do. SL.,  & took 1 [[female symbol]] Stenichneumon defraudator on wall at Slish, Co. LE.

Doonee Rock, shore of L. Gill, Co. SL.  12.30 - 1.30 noon.
[Only seven kept & these labelled 14/3/1940! AWS]

Bombus agrorum & lucorum seen.
Crabro varius several seen.
C. tibialis  1 [[female symbol]].
C. chrysostomus  1 [[female symbol]]
Pezomachus  1 [[female symbol]].
Alomyia debellator  large red [[male symbol, male symbol]] on Angelica.
Stenomacrus ventralis  1 [[female symbol]]
Bassus "tricinctus"  1 not kept
Tryphon elongator  1 not kept.
Mesoleptus prosoleucus?  1 [[male symbol]]
Campoplegid [[female symbol]]: = ? cf. Angitia sp. with short, stout terebra:  put in box next Gonotypus!  AWS. 15/3/1940.
Aphidius  1 [[male symbol]].


31.

9th August 1938.
Wind having gone E again this was a perfect & very hot day, mainly sunny, with some cloud in afternoon.
Spent morning at rock-pools, Bundoran, with Mrs. Morehouse & d.  On way back for lunch swept small pool, on edge of "cliffs", in field, 1/4 mile from Bundrowes, in Co. ED.
Here took about a dozen specimens, but none kept except:-

Zootrephus suspiciosus  [[male symbol]]

9.8.38 afternoon.  3.30 till 6.30 P.M.
Drove to Streedagh, Co. SL., & collected for about 2 1/2 hours.

1 = edge of dunes & salt & fresh water marsh along estuary E of dunes at Streedagh Point.
2 = edge of field NE of dunes, along estuary.
3 = fields E. of No.1 & N. of road to point.

Transcription Notes:
Doonee Rock = Dooney Rock Unable to verify Zootrephus suspiciosus