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29th June 1941. 

The third excessively hot day (a damp heat!) in succession: therefore did not go out till 7.15 P.M. & then rode along Grand Canal & collected a few insects by tow-path (SE side of canal) below Clondalkin & many 1/4 mile above the bridge at that place (some by side of canal where a belt of reed swamp occurs above 2 locks & most along parallel drain beside & below this).

Grand Canal bank, near Clondalkin, Co. DU.  8 till 9.30 P.M. 
30 insects mounted & these labelled 13/11/43! - [C'l'd'K' of Co DU AWS. 29.6.41.]

Dolerus palustris  1♀︎ swept off Equisetum above locks.
Cryptids a few, including Atractodes tenebricosus  ♀︎ & a red sp. (not kept); & Idiolispa analis ♀︎.
Polyblastus   ♂︎, red abd., black femora 28-seg. ant.
Catoglyplus fortipes  ♀︎: not kept.
Nepiera concinna?  ♂︎
Campoplex  small red sp.
Megastylus or Myrianthrus  ♂︎ =


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29.6.41, cont.  Canal, Clondalkin, Co. DU., cont.

Bracon cf. fraudator  ♂︎, ant 29
B. cf. fraudator?  ♀︎, ant 29.
small B. communis  ♀︎, ant. 26.
B. sp? near erraticus,  2 ♂︎♂︎, ant. 36 & 38.
Rhogas irregularis frequent; some nearly black; ♂︎ & ♀︎ mtd.
Apanteles, black legged ♂︎: not kept.
Chelonus?? cf. covulus 1♀︎, ant. 23

Euphorus orchesiae  2; ant. 23.
Meteorus cinctellus  2♀︎♀︎, ant. 26 & 27.
Macrocentrus n. sp. Lyle  ♀︎
Opius apiculator?  frequent:  1♀︎ kept.
O. exilis Hal.?  a nice ♀︎, large, very bright orange 2nd tergite, ant. 27;  mandibles toothed near base below!
O. exilis Hal.?  smaller, with dark abd., ant. 26, but siilar to last othersiwe.
O. pendulus  ♀︎, ant. 20.
Phaenocarpa ruficeps  1 small ♀︎, with almost black head:  not mtd.
Ph. picinervis  2♂︎♂︎:  not mtd.
Dacnusa areolaris group severa.
D. curtipalpis  ♂︎ & ♀︎ both ant. 31
D. nydia Nixon.  2♂︎♂︎, probably swept in reed bed above locks:  very white, clear wings & black stigma & radius & wide rather short radial cell.  A.W.S. 14.11.1943.
D. sp. areolaris group, but short stout stigma, red legs & no sternauli
Coelinius n. sp. Sligo  2♂︎♂︎
Chaenusa conjungens  1♀︎
Monoctonus caricis?  ♂︎ & a few other Aphides (not mtd.)