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304. 24th Sept. 1939. A most perfect day, though wind E & and fairly strong in Dublin; mainly sunny after mid-day. Drove to Kippure House gate, Athdown, Co. WI, & swept birch scrub below main road & between main road & military road to Kilbride: most insects taken at latter place. Insects very plentiful, but Stenomacrus ventralis too common & a nuisance, both sexes. Met present owner of land, Mr. Owen Keogh, & made friends! [25 from 1, 67 from 2 & 8 from either 1 or 2 mtd & these labelled 2-6/4/1942! AWS.] Birch scrub, Kippure Ho. Athdown, Co. WI. 12.30 till 1.30, between road + R Liffey = 1 2.30 till 4.30, edge of main road & sawdust heap on S. of road & chiefly between main & upper road. Bombus agrorum one seen running! ? a [[male symbol]]. Vespa vulgaris [[juvenile symbol, juvenile symbol]] Myrmica ruginodis (& no doubt M. scabrinodis) very active Formica fusca [[juvenile symbol, juvenile symbol]] also very active Leptothorax acervorm [[juvenile symbol, juvenile symbol]] swept, frequent. 305. 24.9.39 cont. Athdown, WI, cont. Ichneumon extensorius [[male symbol]] at 1 I. gradarius? 2 [[male symbol, male symbol]], others seen at 1 Phygadeuonids 3 [[female symbol, female symbol]], at 1 & 2, red abd., & base of antennae. Phyganeuonid [[male symbol]] at 2, red. ant. 26-seg. Cratocryptus?? [[male symbol]] at 2, white-marked face & coxae, ant. 26-seg. Hemiteles [[female symbol]] at 1, small [[female symbol]] brown abd., 20-seg. ant. Hemiteles? black [[female symbol]], apex of abd. very polished, ant. 22-seg. Stilpnus gagates [[male symbol, male symbol]] & [[female symbol]], not kept. Gen. et sp.? (?Hemiteline or Exochine) 1 [[female symbol]] at, 19-seg. ant.: put in box with Exochus where a similar [[female symbol]] from Liffey Head, WI. 9.6.34, is already! Pimpla depositor 2 [[female symbol, female symbol]] at 1 & 2 & ? [[male symbol]], with curious smell, at 1 P. brevicornis? 2 [[male symbol, male symbol]], like last, but stigma unicolorous & not pale in centre. Acrodactyla degener [[female symbol]] at 1. Lissonota commixta? [[male symbol, male symbol]] abundant at 1, near hedge. - 2 [[male symbol, male symbol]] kept, one with black face & mesonotum, the other with yellow marks on both. Dyspetes praerogator [[male symbol]] with last Promethes sulcator [[male symbol, male symbol]] at 2. Homocidus sundevalli 1 fine [[female symbol]] swept off birch at 2. H. flavoguttatus? 1 [[female symbol]] at 1, var. with black coxae. (? this or biguttatus with pale shoulder marks) Mesoleius [[female symbol]] at 1. Exenterus sp. not kept. Diaborus [[female symbol]] at 2.