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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.