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235. 25th July 1943. A dull misty morning with gentle westerly breeze (W. for the first time for over a week?) with barometer down for 24 hours previously & still tending down; soon clearing to a beautiful day but never without some clouds & wind rising as day went on & backing to SW. Left home at 9.30 sharp - 10.30 at foot of Crooksling hill, 11.0 at Brittas Ponds - & reached Kippure Ho. gate at 12.0 noon exactly, about 17 miles & a rise of 800 ft. in 2 1/2 hours not bad for two old people in 60th & 58th year! Left there about 6.20 & home at 7.45 with strong wind behind us from Kilbride. Collected in four areas (or rather in three) as follows:- 1 = birch scrub S. of road & W. of tributary stream. 12 till 1 & 4.30 till 5 P.M. 2 = along W. side of marshy field between birch scrub (1) & R. Liffey & along S. side between field & R. Liffey; especially in swampy places. 2.30 till 4 P.M. 3 = same as [[strikethrough]] two [[/strikethrough]] 2 but on way back from river to 1. 2.30 till 4 P.M. 4 = Under oaks & about birch & willows between main road & old road from Kilbride camp especially in several wet places. 5 till 6.15 P.M. 236. 25.7.43, cont. Kippure Ho., Athdown, Co. WI. Taken at 1. [46 mtd. from 1 & these labelled 9.11.1945.] Sawfly = Ametastegia equiseti ♂︎ Ick. Vol.1 red ♂︎: not mtd. Ichneumon ♀︎ Cryptinids 5: all kept = Pezomachus small ♀︎, ant. 18. Exolytus sp. ♀︎, ant. 24. Atractodes? ♂︎, ant. 21 = Hemiteles sp. ♂︎, ant. 21. Microcryptus sp. ♀︎, ant. 20 Lissonota nitida? a nice ♀︎. Mesoleid sp. near Saotis, ant. 31 = Stenomacrus laricis ♀︎, ant. 27. St. cf. palustris? ♂︎; ant. 20; white trochanters; smooth tergite 1, &c. Cymodusa antennator? 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎. Leptopygus harpurus ♂︎, ant. 34. Plectiscus? sp.? ♀︎, ant. 18. P. sp.? ♂︎, ant. 21 Plectiscid ♂︎, no areolet, ant. 20 = Bracon cf epitriptus ♀︎, var. near var. 6 miki, but legs darker, with long terebra, 30-seg. ant. &c. Rhogas heterogaster 1♀︎, ant. 46. Apanteles cf infimus 6♀︎♀︎. A. fulvipes ♀︎ & ♂︎ A. fraternus? ♀︎. [[right margin]] Winged ants several seen 1♂︎ taken = Myrmica ruginodis. Leptothorax acervorum many ☿☿ seen or swept. [/[right margin]]