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199. 5.9.40, cont. Glenasmole & Slade Bk., DU., cont. Chaenusa conjungens frequent: 1♀︎ kept with micro-striate base to 2nd abd. segment & a normal ♀︎ kept for comparison; both types 2; ant. 21 & 20, respectively. Ephedrus plagiator ♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎, at 2. Aphidius: only about six seen all day & none kept. Proctos: very common: few kept; only 3 from 1, 2 from 3 & 1 from 3 = Exallonyx longicornis ♀︎ at 1. Phaenoserphus pallipes ♂︎ & ♀︎ at 1. Exallonyx microcerus 2♀︎♀︎ at 2, one with reddish ant. Exallonyx? cf confusus Nix? ♂︎ at 3. Red Admiral butterfly seen at 2 on Loosestrife Wall Butterfly very common. Common Blue & Small Copper autumn brood seen Hemiptera 2 spp. = - 2 at 1. - 1 at 2. 200. 8th Sept. 1940. A cold day, NW wind & showers in afternoon, following great drop in temperature on previous night & the first real rain for a long time. Did not go out till afternoon, then drove to Glending, channel W. of Blessington!, arriving just at end of a very cold & drenching shower, with everything soaking, while another shower at 5 PM. again wet everything. In wood, along road, insects in amazing quantity (mostly Icks & Proctos) especially after previous scarcity. Swept first along road under beech, &c., trees at S. end of channel, & off lower branches of same, this in Co. KD (= 1); later on WI side of wall & under oak, ash, &c., chiefly off young ash 2 at N. end of channel (= 2); between 6 & 6.30 swept a little round tarns at head of channel & under hedge near same, in CO. KD. (= 3) but vegetation too wet, wind too strong, edges of ponds too tramped by cattle & ripe seeds of Bidens cernua too troublesome in net. [No Aculeates or Sandflies seen at all!] 17 specimens from 1 36 from 2 & 19 from 3 mounted & these labelled April 1943 - the last labelled before the season 1943 opened & kept me busy, but not sorted & put away till Oct 1943. Hypomecus quadrimaculatus 2♀︎♀︎ at 1 & 2. Cratichneumon cf. rufifrons 1♂︎ at 2.
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