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293. 22.8.43, cont. R. Canal, KD. cont. Taken at 5. [Only six mounted from 5 & these labelled 28.12.1945!] Hoplismenus perniciosus ♀︎. Pimpa detrita Thersilochid ♀︎ = Campoplegids 5 Apanteles glomeratus ♀︎. Diospilus capito & morosus ♀︎♀︎. Aspilota (Synaldis) parvicornis √ ♂︎, very small, ant. 17-segmented. Dacnusa areolaris & pubescens (1♀︎) Aphidius sonchi? ♀︎, ant. 16. Proctos 2: 1 mtd. Chalcids 3: 1 mtd. For list of insects taken by E. O'Mahony on the North Bull, Co. DU., on 25.8.43 see p.298 -> 24th August 1943. At 8 P.M. saw a party of 5 or 6 Swifts over Clareville-Westfield Road after none seen for nearly a fortnight: evidently a party passing through from farther north. 294. 26th Aug. 1943. George returned to England via Belfast (9.0 AM train) after a week's leave! We went by 11 A.M. bus (Enniskerry!) to Killegar, just S. of The Scalp, to collect blackberries, working up the lane to top of hill & then into Glencullen & back to Enniskerry to catch 6 P.M. bus home. A changeable day, with strong cool wind from SW-W, cloudy with showers at times, very hot sun out of a blue sky at others. A heavy shower at 4.30 made collecting in the glen impossible, as I had planned. Swept sides of lane at Killegar, where very many small hymenoptera taken at foot of hedges, also a few in sheltered corners of fields adjoining lane. Two swept off alder in Glencullen just after tea & before shower & 2 or 3 insects taken with sucker after shower on way down glen: of these only one - Aspilota picticornis m. (ant. 19) ♀︎ - mounted. Saw Red Admiral butterfly at Kilgobbin, Co. DU. when bus stopped on way out in morning.