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26th Sept. 1943 (Sunday). 

A cold morning with strong NE wind, cloud & bursts of sun.  Set some insects & went out at 12.30 to woods behind Castlereagh Lodge ruins & here discovered a series of ponds.  Failed to take any hymenoptera by sweeping & so tried sucker on one patch of brambles, &c. under a small oak in hedge on S. side of pond found a wonderful assemblage of small hymenoptera & in half an hour here - only moving a couple of yards back & forwards - I collected some 120 & these labelled "B'c't'y. (1) 26.9.43". 

Afternoon clear, cold & sunny with one hail shower & walked up past new house in woods (where Mr. & Mrs. Sheppard are living!) towards the Tipperary road & then back along upper, disused, track through woods to west of ruined B'c't'y house & down across fields to stables & so home by main avenue.  

Collected here & there during walk, but chiefly at an oak & an alder about 200 yards NE (above) the new house (= "B'c't'y" (2) 26.9.43") & later swept for 15 minutes in plantation between stables & field NW of same, along small stream channel where much Polygonum hydropiper grows, i.e. in same place a station 3 on 14.9.43 (= B'e't'y. (3)26.9.43"). 


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26.9.43 cont.   Ballinacourty, ST.

Taken at 1. 
Collected with sucker off brambles, &c., under oak on S. side of pond in woods near ruins of Castlereagh Ho. & close to main entrance gate, just E. of hotel.  12.45 till 1.15 PM. 
[36 mounted from 1 & these labelled 6.2. 1946!] 

Phaeogenes fuvitarsis  5♀︎♀︎ none mtd.  
Centeterus opprimator  2♀︎♀︎ 1 mtd. ant. 21. 

Cryptinids (? all ♀︎♀︎!) 33: 8 mtd. = 
Exolytus  ♀︎, small, ant. 23. 
Hemiteles cf. pseudominatus  ♀︎, ant. 18. 
Hemiteles sp. ♀︎, long terebra ant. 21,
Microcryptus micropterus  ♀︎, ant. 22. 
Spilocryptus hopei  4♀︎♀︎, ant. 23, 24, 25 & 25.

Promethes scutellaris  5♀︎♀︎, 2 mounted:  ant. both 25.
P. sulcator & P. pulchellis  1♀︎ of each - not mtd.
Stenomacrus ventralis  1♂︎, 3♀︎♀︎.
St. vafer?  2♂︎♂︎ & 1♀︎;  ant. 22, 22 & 21 (♀︎).
St. cubiceps  2♀︎♀︎;  ant. 24 & broken.
St. arcuatus sp. n.  ♀︎;  type, ant. 22;  petiolar area very strongly bounded by an arched keel, hence the name.  AWS. 7.2.1946.
Campoplegids  2♀︎♀︎:  not mtd.
Plectiscus sp.?  ♀︎, ant. 20.