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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 ?) 86. 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.