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85.

2. 5. 43, Aft. cont.  Grand Canal, W. of Clondalkin, Co. DU.

Collected at two places, as follows:-
1 = parallel drain at 3rd lock W. of Clondalkin, between wall & drain, 200 yards above lock;  & in reed bed along side of canal above lock.  S. side of canal!
2 = along parallel drain just above dairy farm gate & for 200 yards above same, 1/4 mile above station 1.

Bombus muscorum, agrorum, derhamellus & lucorum ♀︎♀︎ seen at 2.
Andrena spp.  Hundreds of ♂︎♂︎ everywhere along hedges, where hawthorn already in full flower:  never before have I seen this out at beginning of May so far as I can recollect.
A. albicans  ♂︎ & ♀︎ only examined, but other species undoubtedly seen, at 2.
Nomada spp.  Equally common, but only N. goodeniana actually verified, at 1.

1 Corncrake & Whitethroat heard between The Green Hills & Clondalkin-Naas road!
Speckled Wood, Wall & Orangetip ♂︎ Butterflies seen

Swept at 1.
[13 insects mounted from 1 & these labelled 14.1.1945]
Dolerus palustris
Black Nematina  ♀︎ (at 1 ?) = Priophorus padi?
Empria pumila?  ♂︎ (at 2 ?)


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2.5.43, Aft., cont.  Clondalkin, DU., cont.

Swept at 1, cont.
[[strikethrough]] Dicaelotus? [[/strikethrough]] swept off Salix by drain = Proscus suspicax?  ♀︎.
Cryptinids  16♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎:  none mounted.
Homocidus obscuripes  ♂︎
Campoplegid  ♂︎.
Bracon cf. fraudator?  2♀︎♀︎, ant. 26 & 28, terebra 1/2 abd.
B. tornator M.  ♂︎, ant. 36.
Apanteles circumscriptus?  1♂︎.
Euphorus pallipes?  3 (?♂︎♂︎), ant. 24, 24 & 25:  tergite 1 striate!
Aspilota vulgaris m.  ♀︎, ant. 17.
Dacnusa maculipes  ♂︎.
D. aphanta  ♂︎.
D. (G.) uliginosa  ♀︎, ant. 24
Monoctonus caricis  ♂︎
Aphidius spp.  5♂︎♂︎, not mounted.
Procto.  1 =
Cynipid  1 =

For those taken at 2 P.T.O.