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48. 18th Aug. 1938. A poor day, very windy (SW) with intermittant drizzle & heavy rain in evening. After tea drove to Poulaphuca, Co. WI, where George has a "holiday job" with the engineering firm "Francois Cementation Ltd." who are building the dam & power house for the new Dublin water & electricity scheme there. Left home at 6.20 & arrived Poulaphuca at 7.5; as it had cleared down on to Hollywood Glen, Co. WI., but just after we arrived there heavy rain set in. Collected, in two sweeps under hazel bushes the following:- Hollywood Glen, Co. WI., 8 P.M. Only these 5 kept! labelled 4/4/1940 A.W.S. Exolytes or red Atractides 1 Exochus bifoveolatus sp. nor. ? sex, a most strange insect with mesonotum at each side bordered by a horizontal ridge formed by the upper edges of the pronotum & separated from these ridges by a deep groove near the front margin of which are two deep pits representing the notauli; shoulders almost square. A.W.S. 4.4.1940. [[image]] Aspilota 1 [[female symbol]] Platygaster 1 Phenoserphid 1:= ? sex, a most strange insect with mesonotum at each side bordered by a horizontal ridge formed by the upper edge of the pronotum & separated from these ridges, by a deep groove near the front margin of which are two deep pits representing the notanti; shoulders almost square. A.W.S.4.4.1940. arrpw drawn to [[image]] 49. 21st Aug. 1938. A poor day except for storm in afternoon, SW wind, much sun & insects plentiful, especially mosquitoes, which occurred in dozens & were as hungry as wolves & prevented all attemps to collect seriously in the marshes. Down to Killoughter, on The Murrough, Co. WI. There around 11:30 AM & left at 5 P.M., though hearing storm at 2:30 ended serious collecting. Driven out of the marshes by the road, tried North along railing for a mile, making raids into the marsh here & there, but most insects taken along railing or in fields between same & marsh. After shower at 2:30 walked to upper end of the Broad Lough, which flows out to Wicklow town & is brackish & coll. with sucker amongst drift containing some decaying sea-weed (Fucus) & reeds: the insects taken here listed separately at the end. Saw one solitary Swift repeatedly basking on marsh with dozens of Swallows, House Martins & Sand Martins. One Swift
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Killoughter,Ireland County Wicklow
Poulaphuca should be Poulaphouca