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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.


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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.