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146. 7.5.39 cont. Glenasmole, DU. cont. Aspilota nigrescens? 1♀ at 1 or 2, with 18-seg. ant. Phaenocarpa galatea 1♀ swept off Salix at 3. Dacnusa [[strikethrough]] laevipectus [[/strikethrough]] 1♀ at 2 25-seg. ant., & 1♀ at 3 24 seg. ant. ? sp. n., with dark apices to hind tibiae & many jointed antennae. A.W.S. 20/12/40. = D. tibialis miki! Probably only a var. of laevipectus after all? AWS. 21/12/40. Platygaster 3 at 3. Whitethroats, Cuckoos, & Horncrake (at Greenhills) heard! No Swifts yet! 10th May 1939. The hottest day of the year so far, with intense sun in forenoon, but dull & sultry in afternoon, with W. breeze. Rode to Furry Glen, Phoenix Park, Co. DU. (2.30 till 4.30 P.M.) where the Corporation are preparing to lay a pipe line up the glen, ? in connexion with Liffey water-scheme. Swept in three places as follows:- 1 = upper part of glen, above main avenue to Knockmaroon gate & below septic tank & house. 2 = N. edge of glen on end of plateau, at spring, between S. avenue & boundary wall. 3 = streamside & swamp in bed of glen below S. avenue & between that & boundary wall, just below (E) 2. [[margin note]] [19 from 1, 5 from 2 & 4 from 1 kept & these labelled 21/12/1940! AWS.] [[/margin note]] 147. 10.5.39 cont. Furry Glen, DU. cont. Aculeates not looked for & no sawflies swept: hawthorn just coming out, some trees out. Some common icks swept but not kept! The following however, were kept. Pezomachus? 1 winged ♂ at 1, with curious quite "even", though matt surface to petiole = Confusus ♂ Bridg.? Hemiteles 1 tiny ♂, hardly 2mm. long, with induced neuration at 1. Pimpla depositor? 1♀ at 1. Zootrephus suspiciosus? 1♂ at 3. Campoplex 1 at 1: red sp. Meteorus cf. atrator?? 1♂ by stream at 1 Euphorus pallipes 1: not kept. Blacus ruficornis 1♀ at 1. Alloea contracta ♂♂ at 1 & 2. Aspilota nigrescens 2♂♂ at 1, & 1♂ at 3. A. rufata? 1♂, 19-seg. ant. at 1. A. rufata? 1♀, 17-seg. ant. at 1. A. vulgaris? 1♂, 23-seg. ant. at 1: rather large. Dacnusa aphanta frequent: 1♂ from 1 kept only Ametria uliginosa 1♂, 1♀ at 1, the latter with base of 2nd seg. rugatose. Proctos.: 4 at 1, 3 at 2, & 2 at 3 = P.T.O.