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251. 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? ♂︎. 252. 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.