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319.

3rd Sept. 1942.  

A fine day, nearly all sunny, but with rising glass & very strong W. wind after a wet night due to passing depression.

Went by 10.25 bus to Portmarnock, with Desmond P. Walls & Fergus O'Roarke: the former having found a colony of the ant Myrmica schencki - 5☿☿ mounted! - on the edge of the dunes near the Sutton end of the peninsula just outside the high ridge which bounds the golf-links & in line with a mark on the beach & the centre of Ireland's Eye.  Here the nest is well underground & at or nearly at the foot of the slope bounding the older & newer formed dunes.  M. scabrinodis (a small neat form!} & M. ruginodis-[[strikethrough]] laevinodis (?) [[/strikethrough]] - 3☿☿ mounted & I think they are only ruginodis! AWS. 1944, - as well as Lasius niger also nearby.

Swept before lunch in dunes N. of golf links & then along shore to the point (= 1).  After lunch swept in reverse order back to road, but wind nearly gale force by then & very little out (= 2) see p.321 ->

[40 specimens from 1 mounted & these labelled 2.12.1944!]

Bombus lapidarius  ♂︎♂︎ common, some faded nearly white.
B. lucorum  a fresh ☿ seen on Leontodon at 2.
B. muscorum  1♂︎ on roadside.


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3.9.42, cont.  Portmarnock, Co. DU. cont.

Psithyrus campestris  1 dark ♂︎ near road at 2.
Mellinus arvensis  ♂︎ & ♀︎ seen at 2 in dunes.
Pompilus gibbus  ♂︎ & ♀︎ seen & former taken at 1.

Taken at 1.

Colpognathus divisus?  ♀︎, ant. 24.
Ichneumon latrator group  ♂︎, ant. 29.
Cryptinids:  2 black & red, very hairy ♂︎♂︎ with yellow-marked frons, ant. 24 & 26 = 
Atractodes tenebricosus  1, ant. 19.
Pezomachus  red ♂︎, ant. 21.
Pimpla brevicornis  1♀︎.
Homocidus nigritarsis  ♀︎, large, ant. 22.
Perilissus subcinctus?  ♂︎, ant. 31.
Exochus incidens  1♂︎, face entirely yellow, ant. 41. {cf. 3♀︎♀︎ taken at 2.
Cremastus geminus  2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. 38, 40 & 39 (♀︎).

Campoplegids 3 (2 mounted) = 
Nepiera concinna?  ♀︎, ant. 29.
Angitia?  ♂︎, ant. 32.

Bracon variator  1♀︎, dark wings, ant. 26.
B. xanthostictus?  3♀︎♀︎, ant. 33 & 34 (3rd ant. broken!)
Sigalphus caudatus  ♂︎♂︎ & 1♀︎ (♂︎♂︎ only mounted, ant. 22 & 23).
Chelonus carbonarius  2♂︎♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎;  agrees well!
Ascogaster rufipes  ♂︎, ant. 31.
Blacus humilis?  ♀︎.
Dacnusa vitripennis m.  ♀︎, ant. 29.
Dacnusa glabra Nix.  1♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. ♂︎ 31, of ♀︎ 25/26-seg.
D. areolaris?  ♀︎, ant. 21, with long narrow stigma & projecting terebra.