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39. 28.9.43 (3) cont. Ballinacourty, ST., cont Taken at 2, cont. Aspilota fuscicornis ♂︎, ant. 17. A. (Synaldis) levis? ♀︎, ant. 17. Dacnusa areolaris group 6 ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎): none mtd. D. elegantula 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 25 & 27. D. cyclops 1 small ♀︎ ant. 22. D. pubescens ♂︎ & ♀︎: not mtd. D. longiradialis ♂︎, ant. 21. D. affinis 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. D. hirtigena miki √ a nice ♀︎, ant. 20 Ephidrus validus ♀︎; ant. 11. Protos. 18. 4 mtd. Chalcids (including 1 Mymarid) 3: only Mymarid mtd. & it mutilated by psocids Cynipids 2: not mtd. 40. 29th Sept. 1943. Hot misty rain nearly all day! Set insects in morning & in afternoon during dry spell rode across valley to visit "Bob" Givens of "Holmsgrove" who, the day before we left Dublin had sent a Convolvulus Hawk-moth to the museum & found him a very nice young man of better class farmer type, who keeps bees. Did not collect all day. Hemiteles 2♀︎♀︎ ant. 22 & 23 } taken on hotel window. Chalcid 1♀︎ = } taken on hotel window. 30th Sept. 1943. Left hotel on bikes at 11 AM. & rode via Bansha to train at Limerick Junct. to catch 2.45 train for Dublin - luggage went by pony trap! - which reached at 6.30 & home at 7 PM, & so ended our Autumn Holiday. Stopped at noon & did a little collecting by sweeping in Bansha Wood, ST., on edge of Aherlow Castle woods & forestry plantation N. of same, but everything very wet after previous day's rain. Very hot & humid in shelter!