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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 ♂︎ 142. 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.]