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128. 7th July 1940. A fine day, but with showers; wind W., light;sun very hot when out. Rye Water, Leixlip, Co. KD. 10.30-12.15 "AM". (in Museum in afternoon). All insects swept in angle between road, canal & right bank of Rye Water: collecting sadly interfered with by a drizzle between 11 & 11.30, which made collecting impossible for a whole hour. [52 mounted & these labelled 31.12.42 et seq. A.W.S] Halictus albipes ♂ seen. Vespa rufa & vulgaris ☿☿ seen. Anteon spp. 6 ♂♂, 1 ♀ = Ichneumon 1 large black & yellow ♂. Amblyteles 1 large black & yellow ♂ Pimpla detrita group: 3♂♂ small medium & large sizes, with 1 21-, 23-1 & 24 segmented ant. P. arundinator (= hibernica) ♂ & ♀. Gunomeria macrodactyla ♂. Gen. et sp? ♂, abd. red in centre, ant. 44, Euryproctid or Mesoleid or Mesoleptid? Meloboris (Diadegma?) ♂ & ♀. 129 7.7.40, cont. Rye Water, KD., cont. Absyrtus luteus? ♂ & ♀. Mesochorus., a small dark ♂. Bracon anthracinus ♀ B. communis miki. 1♀, with 27-seg. ant. B. sp.? near last but small (? immature). 1♀, longer terebra 24-seg. ant., & upper half of tibiae pallid yellow, &c., wings clearer. B. fulvipes ♂, with black [[image]] in centre & two lateral apical blackened marks. B.degenerator Marsh. ♂, with extraordinary bright primary-yellow banded abdomen & venter. √ AWS.17.3.1941! labelled!! Hormius moniliatus 1 ♂ Apanteles falcatus ♂ & ♀ A. difficilis? ♀ A. cf. infimus? ♂ Microplitis xanthopus ♂ Agathis sp. 1 ♀ (formerly logged as anglica but not that species fide Nixon, 1942) Meteorus abdominator 1♀, 24-seg. ant., small specimen. Perilitus 1♀, 24-seg. ant.