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269. 23.7.42, cont. Phoenix Park, DU., cont. Taken at 3. [Only nine mounted & these labelled 2.11.44.] Cryptinids 6, including Atractodes tenebricosus ♂︎♂︎ (4): none kept. Glypta rostrata 1 dark ♂︎. Bassus tricinctus ♂︎. Promethes laticarpus ♂︎. Mesoleius 1. Microplitus medianus? ♀︎ Blacus ruficornis 1 small ♀︎: not kept. Opius pallipes? ♀︎, ant. 27. Adelura flaviventris 1♀︎ Dacnusa stramineipes ♂︎: not kept D. melanocera v. grossa miki ♂︎, ant. 31. D. dilatata sp. n. ♀︎. Type! A.W.S. 4.11.1944. black head very much widened behind; mandible very stout & long almost 3 dentate; legs dusky testaceous; ant. 31. &c. [[image]] D. esbelta √ ♀︎, small, ant. 29/30. Ephedrus validus ♀︎. E. plagiator 3♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎, the last with rather pale antennae & abdomen. Aphidius spp. including avenae ♀︎♀︎ Cynipids & Chalcid. 270. 26th July 1942. A nice morning after a day of heavy showers & strong W. wind, turning dull at 9 A.M. & gradually coming on to drizzle about 1 P.M. & continuing till night, wind in Dublin changing from SW to SE at same time as drizzle commenced. Left home about 10.30 & rode to Royal Canal at Leixlip station, KD., on arriving at which found I had left rucksack in kitchen at home with 2 flasks of tea & all collecting apparatus except collecting (ether) bottle. Therefore could not sweep or collect, so went along canal to plantation W. of Louisa Bridge & had lunch (carried by Daisy!) by which time drizzle had come on. Collected beetles for E.O'M. at large fungi growing out of root of poplar (+/- dead) & took one Procto. with fingers on poplar leaf in plantation & then rode home, arriving 3.30 just before heavy rain started. Bombus distinguendus ☿ on Scabiosa arvensis B. hortorum ☿☿ on Carduus lanceolatus, now in flower after rain B. lapidarius ♂︎ seen on C. lanceolatus B. agrorum & lucorum ☿☿ seen. Procto = Aneurrhynchus sp.?