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141.

6th June 1943.

A beautiful, warm, soft day with some cloud & much sun, no showers;  the warmest day of the year, probably!  SW wind but very gentle.

In afternoon rode to Clondalkin & up Grand Canal, where collected in the usual places, as follows:-

1 = Parallel ditch & edge of cornfield, below wall of 3rd lock above Clondalkin, S. of Canal.
2 = Reed bed along edge of canal (S. side) just above 3rd lock.
3 = Parallel drain S of canal & strip between it & canal, just W. of dairy-farm gate, 1/2 mile above 3rd lock.
All Co. DU.

Clondalkin, Co. DU.

Taken at 1.
[16 mounted from 1 (+ 4 "general") & these labelled 18.2.1945!]

Dolerus palustris  ♀︎
Loderus vestigialis
Tenthredo "mesomelas"  ♂︎

Bethylus fuscicornis
Andrena willkella  ♂︎


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6.6.43, cont.  Clondalkin, Co. DU., cont.

Taken at 1, cont.

Platylabus dimidiatus  ♀︎, ant. 35, in cornfield.
Cratichneumon  ♀︎
Hemiteles?  ♂︎.
Bassus annulatus  ♂︎, ant. 19.
Catoglyptus fortipes  ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ common.
Gunomeria macrodactyla  ♂︎, ant. 41.
Campoplegids  2♀︎♀︎ = 
Thersilochid  2♀︎♀︎ (1 mtd.) = - - ant. 16.
Ophion crassicornis J.F.P. MS. in cornfield, ant. 59, ♀︎.
Bracon epitriptus?  ♀︎, ant. 28.
Rhogas irregularis  3♂︎♂︎:  not mounted.
Apanteles pallipes  ♀︎:  this sp. has remarkable sternauli!!!
Chelonus sulcatus?  ♂︎ 1, very "fat" abdomen, ant. 22., large anal fissure!
Euphorus  1, ant. 23.
Centistes lucidator  ♂︎.
Opius  3 (all mounted) =
O. pendulus Hal.  ♀︎, small, ant. 18 & 2 small ♀︎♀︎ very much alike but one more robust referred to communis miki & the other with darker legs & nearly smooth tergite 1 referred to levis Wesm., both with doubt!
= O. cf. communis miki  1♀︎, ant. 26 & O. levis Wesm.  ♀︎, ant. 23.
Aspilota  3 =
A. ruficornis  ♂︎, ant. 28.
A. (Orthostigma) daemon miki  ♂︎, ant. 19, small!
A. nigrescens miki?  a very minute ♂︎, ant. only 19-seg., legs almost black;  head almost widened behind the eyes;  2nd cubital cell very short.

[Also Tryphon trochanteratus  ♀︎ ♂︎ & ♂︎ Cryptinid, ant. 26. taken at 1, 2 or 3, but uncertain! AWS.]