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8. 20th July, 1941. A dull day, but no rain where we were though shower seen about, with rather strong SW-W wind: insects shy. Rode to Rye Water & Royal Canal at Leixlip station, Co KD., where arrived at noon. Swept slope from road to Rye Water (NW side of canal) = 1; after lunch rode on 1/2 mile & collected along edge of canal & in plantation between canal & ponds of Collinstown House - Mr Mitchell's stud! (=2 & 3 respectively) as on 9.7.1944. as on 9.7.1941. [27 from 1 labelled "Rye Water"; 14 from 2 & 28 from 3, labelled "R. Canal". A.W.S. 14/12/43] Rye Water (= 1) & Royal Canal (= 2 & 3), Leixlip, Co. KD. Bombus agrorum, lapidarius & lucorum a few ☿☿ seen Halictus albipes or calceatus 1♂︎ swept at 2. Crabro clavipes. 1 swept at 3, as on 9th July Tenthredo "sulphuripes" ♀︎♀︎, the only sawfly seen. Amblyteles armatorius? (1♂︎ at 2: not kept. Centeterus opprimator ♀︎ at 2 Cryptids 12 to 15, mostly ♂︎♂︎, few kept, as follows :- Hemeteles? ♂︎ at 1, ant. 23. H. ♂︎ at 2, ant. 21. Atractodes ♀︎ at 3, ant. 19. 9. Rye Water & Royal Canal 20.7.41, cont. Leixlip, Co. KD, cont. Glypta ceratites 1♂︎ } not kept. G. mensurator? 1♂︎ } not kept. Exetastes guttatorius ♂︎ at 2. Orthocentrus 1♂︎ ant. 28, at 3. Bassus annulatus 1♂︎. Perilissus filicornis 1 not kept. P. subcinctus? 1♂︎ at 3. Gunomeria macrodactyla ♀︎ at 1. Lathrolestes-like ♂︎ at 3, ant. 25, yellow spots on vertex; black face, &c. = Perilissus (Laphroscopus) sp. ♂︎, fide J.F. Perkins 1961. Campoplegids 7 or 8: only 2 kept as follows. Diadegma? ♂︎ at 2. Gen. et sp.? ♂︎ at 3, ant. 29 = Cremastus cf. geminus?? ♂︎ at 1, ant. 38. Megastylus?? ♂︎ at 3, ant. 29, no areolar nerve! Bracon variator ♀︎♀︎ several: not kept B. epitriptus? 1♂︎ at 1, darkish legs, ant. 31. B. epitriptus? 1♀︎ at 1, pale legs; larger than ♂︎, ant. 30. B. fulvipes 1♂︎, not kept. B. anthracinus ♀︎ at 2, ant. 20. Colastes braconius ♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎ not kept. C. splendida miki 1♀︎ at 3, ant. 34: agrees with type from Blessington, WI, (2) 15.6.1941. Spathius exarator? ♂︎ at 2, ant. 34.