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121. 19.10.41 cont. Slade of Saggart, DU., cont. [14 insects mounted & these labelled 15.2.44] Bombus lucorum ♂︎ seen on ivy above Saggart. [B. agrorum ♂︎ several times seen in garden, 14 Clareville Rd., DU. in forenoon!] Vespa (no double vulgaris) seen in glen & at various places along road from Dublin. Dicaelotus? red spp. 2♀︎♀︎. D. pumilus 1♀︎. Atractodes sp. red ♂︎ Stilpnus gagates ♀︎♀︎: not mounted. Pezomachus rufulus? ♀︎♀︎ seen: not mounted Leptocryptus 1♀︎ not mounted. Alexeter ♂︎, yellow scutellum! not mounted. Stenomacrus ventralis ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎. S. ridibundus 1♂︎: not mounted Campoplegids 1 or 2: 1♀︎ mounted = Plectiscus ♂︎, ant. 20. P. ♀︎, larger, ant. 20. Aperileptus albipalpis? several ♂︎♂︎: not mounted. Proclitus fulvicornis? 1♀︎, ant. 19. 122. 19.10.41, cont. Slade of Saggart, DU., cont. Meteorus filator √ 1♀︎; ant. 21. Dacnusa cf. laevipectus ♀︎♀︎ common. Proctos, frequent, 6 kept: = 20th Oct. 1941. A fine sunny day! The ♂︎ Bombus agrorum again seen in garden, & quite lively on almost the last flower of Centaurea scabiosa: 14 Clareville Rd., DU. 22nd Oct. 1941. The third almost perfect autumn day in succession: nearly all sunny, with gentle but keen NWW breeze. In afternoon rode to Glenasmole & then went up path from upper dam towards Glenasmole school & along top of coombs & into the "willow-glade" now greatly overgrown & hardly recognisable. Swept here & there, but few insects taken & only a very few kept. Saw some Vespa & one Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly. [8 insects mounted & these labelled 15/2/44!]