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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.


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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?  ♀︎.

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Winged ants several seen 1♂︎ taken = Myrmica ruginodis.
Leptothorax acervorum many ☿☿ seen or swept.
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