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313. 10th Sept. 1943. After a very wet night, with soft warm misty rain in morning, the weather cleared about noon & we went out for a walk past Newtown & east for about a mile, then south down a deep narrow lane reminding me of one of the old lanes one finds in southern England, with vegetation in some places forming a complete arch overhead. This lane led us across the Aherlow River & past Agherlow Nat. School. Between the school & river were some Sycamore bushes & on the leaves of these & other plants many ichs. taken with sucker & these labelled Aherlow: 10.9.43 AM. After lunch set previous day's insects (some) & then went for a walk in Ballinacourty demesne behind the hotel - this is one of the many houses round about which is in ruins - no doubt the work of I.R.A. during "The Troubles" of 1920-24. This demesne must have had some magnificent timber in it, the last of which is now being cut, chiefly Scots Fir & Oak, besides these there are masses of scrub of birch, Salix cinerea, S. aurita &c. &c. Swept sides of avenue on way up through demesne, on main avenue & another sloping north past a house in woods. 314. 10th Sept. 1943 A.M. Lane near Aherlow school, Co. NT. 12 noon to 3 P.M. [17 mounted & these labelled 10.1.1946!] Formica fusca ☿☿ seen. Halictus calceatus ♂︎ taken H. nitidiusculus or punctatissimus ♂︎ taken with fingers but lost. Sawflies 2. = Pachynematus obductus ♀︎. Ametastegia equiseti? ♂︎, near hotel on roadside Ichneumon sarcitorius ♂︎ (this & the above not mtd.) Phaeogenes tibiator ♂︎, ant. 28, white face Cryptinids 6 (mounted 2) = Hemiteles small ♀︎, ant. 19. H. ? larger ♀︎, ant. 19 Pimpla instigator ♀︎. } not mtd. P. flavicoxis ♂︎ & ♀︎. } not mtd Glypta ceratites ♀︎, very small; ant. 37. Acrodactyla madida √ ♂︎, ant. 23 Lissonota sulphurifera group ♂︎ pale front coxae, ♀︎ with black hind coxae = } none mtd. L. common sp. ♀︎ [[strikethrough]] short terebra [[/strikethrough]] } none mtd. Stenomacrus ventralis 2♂︎♂︎ } none mtd. St. merula? ♂︎, ant. 24. Promethes sulcator ♀︎ } none mtd. P. pulchellus ♀︎ } none mtd. Homocidus pallipes ♂︎. } none mtd.