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165. 3rd August 1940. The third day in succession without a cloud, very hot sun & pleasant, cool, E-SE breeze. Saturday! Left Museum at 1 P.M. as senior officer both on leave for month of August (O'Connor & Gogan!) & I do not wish to be absent any afternoon during the week following. Drove in afternoon to Grand Canal, just E. of Landenstown House, Co KD. (as often before), arriving about 4 P.M. and staying till 8.30 P.M. Breeze strong at first and not much out till about 7 P.M. Kept 28 from 1 = tree belt & drainsides between road & canal, 1/4 mile below lock. 4 till 5.30 PM 18 from 2 = Canal (S. side) bank between lock & plantation at 1. 6 till 7 P.M. 24 from 3 = Fields, plantation, drains, &c. S of 1; chiefly field of cut hay & edge of barley field. 7.15 till 8.30 P.M. & these labelled 29/3/43 et seq. or earlier AWS. The catch of the day was a ♀ Streblocera fulviceps at 3, but exactly where I cannot say. This ♀ & 12 other specimens labelled 30/1/41! AWS. 166. 3.8.40, cont. Landenstown Ho., KD. cont. Anteon? small ♂ at 3 = Tenthredella moniliata (? 2nd brood) ♂ at 1. Black ♂ Nematine at 1 = Priophorus tener? Phygadeuonid ♀, small wings, at 1 = Atractodes red ♀, at 2 = Glypta "nigrotrochanterata" ♀ at 1. G. (Conoblasta) monocerus ♀ at 2. Colpomeria quadrisculpta ♀ at 2. Acrodactyla degener ♀ at 3. Cteniscus ♂ & ♀ at 1, ant. 27-28 seg. respect. Mesoleius ♂ at 1, ant. 33. Tryphon (Cosmoconua) ceratophorus ♀ at 3. Polyblastus varitarsus? ♂ at 3, very small, only 52 seg. ant. Perilissus subcinctus? ♂ at 3. Bassus annulatus, large ♂ at 3. Homocidus bizonarius ♀ at 3. H. ornatus ♂ at 3, large! Meloboris ♀ at 2. Thersilochid ♀ at 2 = ant. 17 segmented. Bracon epitriptus ♂ & ♀ at 2 (Run down to this sp. also in [[?Telonge's]] key!!! the first time I had used the key! AWS 31.3.43) Clinocentrus gracilipes Thoms. A very nice ♀ at 1, ant. 31 seg. Oncophanes minutus ♀ at 3. Apanteles tetricus? 1 ♀ at 3. Streblocera fulviceps : a beautiful ♀ at 3, see p.165 opposite (This & others from 3 labelled in Nov. 1940) Meteorus ictericus ♀ at 1. M. scutellator ♀ at 2. M. abdominator ♀, short wings, at 3. M. sp.? cf. melanostictus dark var.? clear wings of dark stigma 33-seg. ant. &c. at 1. AWS 31.3.43
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