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76. [[marginalia]] Five Ravens circling over valley at 3.30 & calling vigorously as they circled & drifted westward. [[\marginalia]] 8th Sept. 1938. A most perfect autumn day, blue sky & all sunny till late evening, with rising barometer & strong N. breeze, drizzling at 6 P.M. In afternoon drove to Athdown (Kippure Lodge), by the hill road, walked down to R. Liffey & collected in quagmire at foot of meadow & under trees on bluff under main road for an hour; then swept under trees along tributary stream back to bridge (i.e. the reverse of usual procedure) for another hour. Watched oaks, &c. in very hot sun for Crabros, but only saw C. varius & mellinus arvensis. At bored standing tree (12 feet!) saw C. varius, C. chrysostomus & Pemphredon lugabris, the last carrying home flies, apparently, in its mouth, as a dog would do. Insects plentiful under trees! Saw one Clegg at 5.0 P.M. Later drove on to Poulaphuca & picked up George & went on to glen at Ardinode, 2 miles S.E. of Ballymore Eustace, C. Kildare 77. Labelled 13/11/40 et seq. 8.9.38 cont. Kippure Lodge, Athdown, Co. WI. 3.30-5.30 P.M. Labelled 13/11/40 et seq. 17 Kept from 1 & these labelled "Athdown (1)" 1 = Swamp at foot of meadow & under trees on bluff below road at SW corner of meadow, near R. Liffey. 2 = Under trees by tributary stream from its junction with R. Liffey to road. 21 kept from 2 & these merely labelled "Athdown"! Mellinus arvensis [[male symbol, male symbol]] & [[female symbol, female symbol]] very abundant. Pemphredon lugubris [[female symbol, female symbol]] carrying flies (in mouth) to hole in bored tree at foot of tributary stream. Crabro varius frequent. C. chrysostomus [[female symbol, female symbol]] with Pemphredon. Hypomecus quadriannulatus 1 [[female symbol]] at 1. Hemiteles 1 [[female symbol]], 19-seg. ant. at 1 short areolar nerve. H. 1 [[female symbol]], 18-seg. ant. at 1 short areolar nerve. H. [[male symbol]], 19-seg. ant. at 2. Microcryptus?? 1 [[female symbol]] at 1, tricolored antennae.