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89. 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.