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283. 18.8.43, cont. Glenasmole, DU. cont. Taken at 2, cont. Proctos. Very common: 2 doz in sucker only kept 4. Chalcids 6. Peacock Butterfly by marsh at 1. Taken at 3. Only a few taken here & most packed up: the following 18 mounted & these labelled 23.12.45. Allantus tener? dark legs, ♂︎. Pezomachus sp. wingless ♂︎, ant. 21. P. sp. winged ♂︎, red propleura, ant. 24. Hemiteles sp. 3♂︎♂︎, very small species, ant. all 19. Oncophones minutus ♀︎, ant. 23, mesopleura sculptured! Clinocentrus vestigator ♂︎, ant. 26. Opius cf. aemulus var. with almost smooth sternauli, &c. 2♂︎♂︎, ant. 26 & 27. Aspilota cf. minutissima ♂︎, ant. 22. A. viatica 2♀︎♀︎, rather small, both 19-seg. antennae. 284. 18.8.43, cont. Glenasmole, DU., cont. Taken at 3 cont. Dacnusa lateralis ♂︎, ant. 42. D. evadne ♀︎, ant. 29. D. longiradialis 1 very small ♂︎, ant. 21. Praon volucre ♀︎, ant. 18. Aphidius sp.? ♀︎, ant. 18-seg., long & very slender. 22nd Aug. 1943. A very windy day (SW-W) with showers at 11.30, 2.30, 3.30 &c. the last making everything so wet that I had to give up collecting except under lee of tall hedge. After tiding to Clontarf to see R.S. Bognall & J. Litster & spending an hour with them, leaving account of their visit to Kerry, rode (leaving Clontarf at 10.45) to Louisa Bridge on Royal Canal, Co. KD. (arriving there 12.16, i.e. 1 hour 31 minutes after leaving 31 Copeland Avenue - against wind most of the way!), where joined Daisy & George (home on leave from England) who had gone by 10 AM bus to Carton & walked back along canal.