![Transcription Center logo](/themes/custom/tc_theme/assets/image/logo.png)
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
15. 11th October 1942. A very fine day after two very stormy days with showers; nearly all sunny after a cold night, with moderate W. wind. Rode (alone) to Rye Water at Leixlip, Co. KD & after an hour went on along canal to plantation W. of Louisa Bridge. Collected at five places, as follows: - 1 = Slope from road to Rye Water; NE of Louisa Br. 2 = W. edge of 3rd field W. of Louisa Br. between canal & Maynooth road. 3 = Edge of canal at plantation, 1/2 mile W. of Louisa Br. 4 = Inside wall of plantation 5 = Shaken out of Polyporus (long dead!) at foot of old poplar tree at 4. Taken at 1 or seen there. (Rye Water, KD.) [5 mounted & these labelled 18.12.44] Bombus agrorum a few faded ☿☿ or ♂︎♂︎. Vespa vulgaris a few ☿☿. Cryptinids 3 (2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎) ant. 21, 22 & 24 = Hemiteles spp. Opius cingulatus ♀︎, seen to fly into spider's web!), ant. 32. Apanteles fulvipes group ♂︎. 16. 11.10.42, cont. Royal Canal, W. of Louisa Bridge, Co. KD. Taken at 2. [Only 2 mounted & these labelled 18.12.1944.] Promethes sulcator ♀︎ Helictes ♂︎ Alloea contracta ♀︎. Aphidius ♂︎, ant. 17. Monoctonus cf. nervosus: a small ♂︎, ant. 17. Chalcids Cynipids Taken at 3. [None mounted] Pimpla brevicornis ♀︎ Cynipid 1 Taken at 4. [25 from 4 mounted & these labelled 19.12.1944.] Pemphredon lugubris, a very large ♀︎, seemingly quite fresh, on trunk of old poplar Myrmica ruginodis (?) 1♂︎, swept. Epitomus pygmaeus ♀︎ Vol 1 ♂︎ ? Vol 1 ♀︎ cf. Aethecerus porcellus Hlgr., ant. 21.