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130. 7.7.40 cont. Rye Water, KD., cont. Prosapha speculum 1 ♂ labelled 17.3.41! Pentapleura pumilio ♀♀, one with very pale legs. Aspilota semicompressa 1 ♀ sp. n. Type! Head not quite flat ontop, ant. shorter than in compressa, 16-seg. Labelled! AWS. 17.2.1941 Dacnusa cyclops ♂ D. ochripes sp. n. ♂, like affinis but ant. 29.seg., legs rich ochre, tergite 1 hairy & tufted at corners like coltipalpis; sternauli narrow, deep & smooth. Type! AWS. 1.1.43. Coelinius cephalotes miki? 1 ♂ with 47-seg. ant. C. n. sp. Sligo 1 ♂ with 41.seg. ant. Chaenon anceps ♂♂ & 1 ♀. Praon vulucre? 2 ♂♂, with 21 & 24.seg. ant. resp. Aphidius spp. common: ony 1 mounted = A. gregarius? dark ♀ Proctos. 7: = Paracodrus apterogynus 3 ♂♂; Chalcids 2 = cf Spalangia? Diptera 2 = 2 ♀♀ of Onycera pygmaea Fallen. Dragonfly: Calopteryx splendeus abundant along the Rye Water. 131. 10th July 1940. A very perfect day, after a depression & considerable rain the previous day & evening: vegetation still wet in shelter: nearly all sunny with gentle NW breeze, turning E. in evening. Left home about 11 AM. & drove to R. Liffey near Osberstown HO., Sallins, where collected on steep bank between road & river for an hour: then on to canal below Landenstown HO. where collected for two hours; then on via Coolcarrigan, Timahoe, Dunadea Castle to Maynooth; collected for a few minutes in roadside ditches just W. of Dunadea where road crosses the arterial drain leading into R. Blackwater; much interesting ground around this area: at 4.15 P.M. arrived at Moygaddy HO. where the Misses Fowler (formerly of Bryanstown HO.) now live in a flat in old stable building & here after tea collected in fields & glen of tributary to Rye Water for nearly an hour: home 8.30 P.M.