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86. 11.9.38 aft. cont. Riverdale]], Co. WH cont. See p. 85. 15th Sept. 1938. A very fine day after rain during previous morning & a clear cold night with very heavy dew ("frost"): vegetation in shelter therefore too wet to sweep, except under very leafy trees; fairly dry in open. S. breeze. Drove in afternoon to Glending, 2 miles W. of Blessington on WI-KD border & collected for 2 hours or so, then on to Poulaphuca to pick up George; later drove on to pass E of Hollywood, where left car, & walked to ruined cairn on summit of Slievecorragh, 1379 ft.; then home. 87. 15.9.38. 3.30-4.30 P.M. Marsh at head of channel, Glending, Co. KD, round remains of "kettle-hole", really a small lake formed by falling in of sides of channel after this ceased to take the melt waters during Ice Age. [23 only kept & these labelled 22/11/1940! AWS.] Labelled Glending Msh. Co.KD. Hemiteles sp. 1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]], on same card, but ? same sp. Promethes dorsalis 1 [[male symbol]]. Bracon fuscicornis 1 [[male symbol]]. Microgaster globatus 1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]]. Phaenocarpa (Rhopaloneura gen. nov.) nimia sp.n. Type [[female symbol]], swept in marsh. Dacnusa gilvipes 1 [[male symbol]], antennae broken. D. areolaris 1 [[female symbol]]. D. pubescens 2 [[female symbol, female symbol]]. D. striatula 1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]], very nice pair. D. esbelta 1 [[male symbol]], 1 [[female symbol]], mtd. on one card. [[strikethrough]] D. affinis 1 [[male symbol]], 27-seg. ant. [[/strikethrough]] = Ametria uliginosa [[male symbol]], ant. 27-seg. D. polita-nigra 1 [[female symbol]] (?) 26-seg. ant., dark wings, short antennae D. hirtigena? 1 [[male symbol]], 22-seg. ant. D. elegantula 1 [[female symbol]], 25-seg. ant.