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11. 4. 43. cont.  Glenasmole, Cp. DU.  3.15 till 5.0 P.M. 

Only collected in two places, as follows:-
1 = Flat at head of upper reservoir, already dry as lake six or more feet down since February. 
2 = around the "sun-trap" on W. side of lower reservoir.

Bombus lucorum ♀︎ at 1; B. agrorum & lapidarius ♀︎♀︎ at 2.
Dolerus nigratrus  ♂︎ at 1: first wasps for 1943.
Centeterus opprimator?  ♀︎ at 1, ant. 21.
Hemiteles or Phygadeuom?  ♀︎ = at 1, ant.20
Hemiteles or Phygadeuom?  2♂︎♂︎ at 2 both ant. 23 = 
Hemiteles (near aperta?)  ♂︎ at 2, ant. 23.
Proctos. 3 at 2. 
Chalcid 1 at 2.
Greenveined White Butterfly seen at 1


12/4/43 
1st Flower open on Clematis montana at back gate! 


76.

14th April 1943.

A soft day, mainly cloudy with SW breeze;  some slight sun in early afternoon, then very warm.

In afternoon rode across Phoenix Park to Ashtown & turned up Royal Canal to Blanchardstown & back; on very back swept edge of canal & along ditch, chiefly opposite Morgan's School, but no very attractive ground seen.

Royal Canal, W. of Ashtown, Co. Du.  3.0 till 5.0 P.M.

Bombris terrestris, lapidarius & muscorum  ♀︎♀︎ seen
Andrena cineraria  ♂︎♂︎ seen on tow path at lock below Blanchardstown, there no doubt a colony exists; this colony, like that in the Furry Glen, is evidently one of the early ones!
A. jacobi  ♂︎ & ♀︎, 
A. albicans  ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ seen
Halictus  of. albipes  ♀︎ seen.
Nomada spp. many ♂︎♂︎ seen on Dandelions
Myrmica laevinodis  ♀︎ swept on edge of canal; examined! 


Taken at 1 
[13 mounted & these labelled 10.1.45!] 
Pegamachus fasciatus  ♀︎ant. 22. 
P.rufulus?  2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 19.
Hemiteles very small sp.  2♀︎♀︎ ant. 18 & 20 = 
Phygadeuon?  ♂︎♂︎, common 2 mounted =
Campoplegid  ♂︎ red legs, ant. 32. =

Transcription Notes:
not sure of scientific names 2. Reviewed & edited