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22nd July 1943.

A very nice day;  after a dull morning much sun in afternoon, with N-NE breeze.
Went by 11.20 bus to Malahide & across to "The Island" by ferry:  ret. by 6.0 P.M. bus.

Collected in three areas:-
1 = edge of dunes along estuary (W) side of peninsula as far as derelict fields.
2 = centre dunes south of highest point.
3 = from 2 back to ferry along eastern margin of older dunes.

The Island, Malahide, Co. DU.

Taken at 1.
[48 mounted from 1 & these labelled 4.11.45]

Colletes picistigma  ♂︎.
Halictus "smeathmanellus"  ♀︎
Pompilus plumbeus & gibbus
Tachysphex pictinipes
Crabro wesmaeli
Barichneumon  red ♂︎:  not mtd.
Mesostenus transfuga  ♂︎, ant. 28
Stilpnus gagates?  large ♀︎, ant. 17
Hemiteles  ♂︎, ant. 23 with large anal forceps =
H.  ♀︎ ant. 27, with broad, red, rugose-matt abdomen = 


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22.7.43, cont.  The Island, Malahide, DU., cont.

Taken at 1, cont.

Lissonota paralella  ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎.  ♂︎ ant. 42;  ♀︎ also 42.
Pimpla detrita group  2♀︎♀︎, one larger, the other smaller, ant. 26 & 24.
Cremastus germinus  ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ } not mounted.
Meloboris  ♀︎ } not mounted.
Angitia?  ♀︎, ant. 26
A. ?  ♀︎, ant. 27.
Bracon erythrostictus  ♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 37, 33 & 36 respectively. 
B. concolor  4♀︎♀︎:  not mtd.
B. anthracinus √  2♀︎♀︎, ant. 19 & 20.
Apanteles cf halidaii?  ♀︎, but no pale spot at base of stigma!
Arcogaster rufipes?  2♂︎♂︎, (ant. 31 & 32 ?)
Sigalphus cf. caudatus  ♂︎, ant. 20, var. with tergite 3 & apex of 2 smooth & polished.
Perilitus aethiops?  ♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎:  not mtd.
Meteorus pallipes  ♀︎;  ant. 29:  fits description well!
Pentapleura pumilio  A tiny ♀︎ with very black legs, ant. only 16.
Aspilota sp.?  ♀︎, ant. 21, near Glaucium luteum
A. sp.?  ♀︎, small, teneral, specimen
Both Aspiloteas have antennal seg. 3, scarcely longer than 4 & are like each other in many ways.