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88. 8.9.41, cont. Dooaghtry; WM, cont.. Prometheus pulchellus ♂︎. Homocidus pectoratorius 1♀︎ swept off Psamma H. bizonarius 1 small ♂︎, ant. 20.} All on dunes? H. nigritarsis ♂︎ & ♀︎ } All on dunes? H. elegans a fine ♂︎. } All on dunes? H. signatus red ♂︎. Campophyids: several ♀︎♀︎. Oncophanes minutus? 1♀︎ ant. 21. (? loc.) probably dunes Microplitis mediana ♂︎ (? loc.), probably dunes Apanteles falcatus? 2 on dunes Centistes lucidator 1♂︎, at lunch place. Biosteres arenarius sp. n. ♀︎ on dunes: Type! A.W.S. 1.2.1944 near B. wesmaeli but exserted terebra & 2nd ascissa of radius short. See also p.100 -> Dacnusa sp. nov.? 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎, on dunes, off Psamma; very black, ant. 31, 31 & 30, near ebenina miki, but legs reddish, &c. - See also p.101 -> Praon granularis sp. n. ♂︎, black sp. (on Psamma?) ant. 21, propodeum dull, granulated, whle in volucre it is smooth & polished. Aphidius cf cirsii Hal. ♀︎ (on Psamma?) which was covered with small green Aphides: hence also, I suppose, the presence of so many Bassids on dunes. A. sp. ♂︎, ant. 18, black legs. Coccinellid very common on Psamma on dunes = 89. 9th Sept. 1941. A fine day, but as all the previous week very misty & the mountains invisible or nearly so & the summits cloud-capped. Did not collect in morning, but after lunch took our tea with us & rode to "The Six Mile Strand" at Lough Bawn & worked dunes & marsh between that lough & L. Cahazy sough of it, till 6.20 P.M. Roonah district, Co. WM. 1 = dunes N. of road to coast & between road & L. Bawn. 2 = dunes S. of road to coast & between road & L. Cahazy. 3 = Iris-filled marsh at NW corner of L. Cahazy, where insects in plenty. [8 from 1 mounted, none from 2 & 6 from 3, & these put away & listed on 2.2.1944!] [NB. On Psamma arenaria at Dooaghtry on 8.9.41 great quantity of a green Aphid occurred, but at Roonah not a trace of this was to be seen & so no Coccinellids & no or few Bassids.] Bombus lapidarius ♂︎♂︎ plentiful at 1.