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16th Sept. 1941.  

A fine day, but mainly dull & with occasional drizzly-mist, just like what we had so much of in Mayo.

Garden, 14 Clareville Rd., Harold's Cross, DU.

Stenomacrus deletus ♀︎, running about on moss in soup-plate in which grow Pinguicula grandflora, which plate had been in garden while I was in Mayo.
Mesochorus  1♀︎ 
[Aphaereta tenuicornis Nixon.  1 dead ♀︎ found at window in bathroom!]
Bombus agrorum.  The only aculeate seen in garden, except an unidentified Vespa.


17th Sept. 1941.

A very fine warm day with much hot sun.  In evening (7.0 P.M.) Daisy found a winged ♀︎ Ponera punctatissima wrapped up in a clean handkerchief which had been washed this day & hunt out in the garden to dry with the rest of the washing.  There is no evidence, however, whether it got into the handkerchief in the garden or in the kitchen.  This ant has not before been recorded from Ireland!

Beating in the garden about 10 P.M. produced


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17.9.41, cont.  Garden, 14 Clareville Rd., DU., cont.

one Cynipid ( ), one ick (Hemiteles bicolorinus? ♀︎) & several Chalcids;  as well as hemiptera, snails & dozens of Oniscus asellus & Porcellio scaber, but no more ants.


18.9.41.
Taken on kitchen window at 9 AM (possibly brought into kitchen on beating-tray the previous night):-
Hemiteles areator?  ♀︎.
Cryptinid  ♀︎ =
& 1 Procto. = Exallonyx cf. brevicornis  ♂︎.


Taken by E. O'Mahony, at light in house, Clontarf, Co. DU., while I was on Holidays (i.e. 1st-17th Sept.).
Meteorus deceptor?  1♀︎.
Sigalphus caudatus  1♀︎
Homocidus laetatorius  ♀︎.


20th Sept. 1941.  
Taken on my window in Museum, Dublin
Sigalphus floricola?  1♀︎, with sculptured 3rd segment.


All the above labelled & put away 27/9/42.  AWS.

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