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6th July 1942.  

A fine hot sunny day with a few small storms.

Visited M.S Dudley Westropp in afternoon & while in his garden, 10 St. James's Terrace, Clonskeagh, Co. DU., saw or took the following:

Bombus lucorum, hortorum, jonellus & agrorum  ☿☿.
B. distinguendus  ♀︎ & 1☿ seen.
Bracon triangulator very abundant on leaves of Red Currant bushes.  ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎:  1♂︎ taken with fingers.  ?? see below! AWS. 21.10.1944.
Bracon variator?  1♂︎
Phaenocarpa canaliculata Stelfox  ♂︎♂︎ abundant on rubbish-heap, six taken with fingers, ant. 32, 32, 32, 33, 33 & 34.
Procto.  2 at rubbish-heap.


10th July 1942.
3 insects taken in St. Anne's, Clontarf, Dublin, by E. O'Mahony.
Cladius pectinicornis?  ♀︎.
Mesoleius sp.  ♂︎
Macrocentrus collaris??  ♂︎, ant. 34.


10th July 1942.

Cooler, with heavy showers from NNW.  

At 3 p.m. a fresh ♀︎ Bombus lucorum came into N. window of my room in Museum, as if to seek a place for hibernation, as others have done every year, I think, since I came to Dublin.  Unfortunately I have not kept a note of dates, but their appearance in my room was usually "early" (? July or August).

On kitchen window, 14 Clareville Rd., Harold's Cross, Dublin took a ♂︎ sawfly Priophorus padi? ♂︎.


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12th July 1942.

A fine day, mainly dull, gentle SW-W breeze, with a few sun-bursts when very hot & almost sultry.  Rode, alone, to Leixlip, arriving at Louisa Bridge at 11.40.  Collected, as usual, between road & Rye Water, N. of canal, till 3.30;  then rode west along canal to usual plantation, left latter at 5.35 & reached home at 6.45.

Rye Water (Leixlip Station) & Royal Canal, Co. KD.
1 = Marsh & upper level next road, N. of canal.
2 = below station 1 & down to marsh at river & in next field to N. of same.
3 = extreme top (N.W.) corner of second field N. of canal (some from same place included in 2)
4 = Side of canal & area outside plantation (at both ends of same) 1/2 mile W. of Louisa Bridge.
5 = Walled-in plantation, as usual, at 4.

Megachile ♀︎, almost certainly M. versicolor seen at 2 on slope of aqueduct.
Pemphredon swept in marsh at foot of slope & aqueduct, near Burdock patch by river.