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6.5.43, cont.  Glenasmole, Co. DU.

Taken at 2.  (Mostly swept off Salix (or Birch).
[9 from 2 mounted & these labelled 15.1.1943!]

Athalia liberta √ ♀︎ on slope below glade!
Euura sp.  ♀︎.
Stenomacrus ridibundus  ♂︎, ant. 23.
Eclytus fontinalis  ♀︎ on Salix: very small; ant. 24-seg.
Mesochorus  ♂︎, ant. 39.
Colastes braconius  ♀︎.
Eubadizon extensor, a dark ♂︎, ant. 39.
Dacnusa cf. laevipectus  ♂︎, with dark legs.
2 Chalcids (2 spp. both mounted).
Dipteron =

Taken at 3.
[14 from 3 mounted & these labelled 15-1-1945!]

Euura sp. ♀︎.
Dolerus possilensis  1♀︎.
Hemiteles  ♂︎, ant. 24.
Plectiscus  ♂︎, ant. 21.
P.  ♂︎, ant. 23, red coxae.
Bracon osculator  ♂︎, ant. 25
Euphorus picipes Hal.?  1, ant. 20, fuscous legs.
Opius funebris?  ♂︎, ant. 22; immature.  (First Opius in 1943!)
Dacnusa laevipectus √ var. with dark legs  ♂︎ & ♀︎, ant. both 23.
D. semirugosa  ♂︎, ant. 36.
D. fallax?  ♂︎, ant. 35.
D. postica  ♂︎, ant. 38.

Beetle Longitarsis anchusae, which I added to Irish list a few years ago from Glenasmole, taken at 3.


90.

7th to 11th May 1943.  (Friday till Tuesday, inclusive)

After much dry & mild weather & then some rain & much growth, the weather turned cold early in May.  On the 7th we had rain +/- all day, with cold NW wind;  Saturday 8th very cold & wet in morning;  Sunday 9th very cold with terrific hail showers & +/- gale at intervals from N.N.W.;  very raw & cold in evening.  at 2 A.M. on Monday 10th (so I am told!) it commenced to snow & continued till breakfast, so that in our garden there was about 3 inches of snow & everything flattened out by it - currant bushes, &c., but in town this quickly thawed & was soon gone.  On the mountains however, there must have been nearer a foot of snow as all completely white & still fairly white at 5 P.M. on 11th, though this day not cold & much sun in forenoon;  wind turning to E. caused a jam & skiffs of rain with cloud in afternoon.

Potatoes in back garden quite unaffected by being covered for some hours with snow, also new frond of Osmunda unaffected;  but Euphorbia hiberna in front garden quite broken down & almost flattened by it.