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115.

23rd May 1943. 

A day of hot sun & thunder showers after a very wet day which ended in a severe thunder storm & torrential rain, but warm & many insects out after each shower.  Did not go anywhere, but made drawings of Aspilota nervosa & fuscicornis Hal. in forenoon, & between showers collected in garden with sucker.

Garden, 14 Clareville Rd., Dublin 
[21 insects mounted & these labelled 29.1.1945!]

Bombus hortorum ♀︎ at foxglove flowers, where seen for several days in succession.
Andrena albicans & jacobi ♀︎♀︎ seen
Halictus leucopus  ♀︎♀︎, very numerous nesting in mortar of E. wall.
Vespa germanica ♀︎: this haunts corner next road at motor-house door all day - 9 AM till 9.30 P.M. - seen for some time lately & seen to catch & eat flies, twice, at 9 AM.
Odynerus pictus & Chrysis ignita ♂︎♂︎ seen.
Crabro varius & C. leucostomus plentiful
Pontania proxima* group taken on Cistus leaf, next Salis cinerea, whose leaves are now well galled.  See p. 182->.  * Other specimens sent to Benson were stated by him to belong to the "proxima group", in letter to A.W.S.


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23.5.43, cont.  Garden, 14 Clareville Rd., DU., cont.

Hemiteles bicolorinus group ♀︎, ant. 22.
Phygadeuonid ♂︎, ant. 22 =
"Pimpla" oculatoria ♂︎, ant. 27.
Homocidus pictus group.  5♂︎♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎ =
H. pictus cf. megaspis? ♂︎, with pale-margined scutellum & 22-seg. ant.
H. longiventris? ♂︎, with 22-seg. ant.
H. cf. pictus  3♂︎♂︎, ant. 20, 21 & 21, & 2♀︎♀︎ with red hind coxae & 21-seg. antennae.
Campoplegid ♂︎, ant. 34 =
Bracon variator ♂︎, ant. 32.
Apanteles glomeratus ♀︎.
Aphidius chrysanthemi?  1♀︎, ant. 14, blackish legs.
A. renominatus Hincks (= cirsii Hal.)?  ♂︎ (ant. 18), 2♀︎♀︎ (ant. 15 & 17)
Dipteron 1 =
Cynipid: large sp. 2 =
Chalcid 1 =


24.5.43.
Some stung Aphides taken off lettuce plants in garden, 14 Clareville Rd., DU., about a week ago, today produced many Aphidius  6♂︎♂︎, 3♀︎♀︎ mounted = Aphidius matricariae?? ♂︎ ant. 15-16-17-segmented; ♀︎ 13-14-seg.


26.5.1943.
On this day I killed a ♀︎ Cimbex femorata which emerged on 21.5.1943 & which had been sleeved on birch tree in garden.  It was taken as a larva on birch at ca. 1,000 ft. alt. in the Slade Brook glen, Upper Glenasmole Co. DU. on 21.9.1941 (1941 not 1942!) & spun up on 1.10.1941.  No larva ever seen on the birch afterwards!  A.W.S.