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101. 9th May 1944. A dull, dry, windy, day, with high glass & sun occasionally glowing through misty sky: wind strong & variable, SW., S, & even E., falling in late afternoon - too late to matter. Went by bus to North Bull - arriving about 10:30 A.M. & collecting till 4 P.M. - home 5.30. Collected by sweeping & shaking vegetation along edges of drains &c. in three areas: 1 = edge of salt-marsh & golf links from C.G. Station to Curley's Farm. 2 = Sandhills on sea-side for a mile on town side of Lady Anna's Bank & around that place, including sand-flat where alders are & clump of Salix repens 3 = edge of drain parallel to golf links for half-a-mile at furthest point of drain from town. North Bull, Co. DU. Taken at 1, by sweeping, or seen. [37 mounted from 1 & these labelled on 28.10.1946.] Bombus lapidarius & muscorum ♀︎♀︎ certainly seen. B. terrestris 1♀︎ seen. Other bumbles heard, not seen. Dolerus picipes ♂︎ 102. 9.5.44, cont. North Bull, DU., cont. Taken at 1, cont. Dryptinids 4♂︎♂︎: 2 mounted = Hemiteles sp. ♂︎, ant. 21, all legs dark. Phygadeuon? sp. ♂︎, ant. 22, front legs pale. Stenomacrus cf. affinis? ♂︎ & ♀︎ (not taken together!) ant. both ♂︎ & ♀︎ with 22-segments. Aspilota sp.? ♂︎, ant. 21, with dimple. Dacnusa cf. freya Nixon?? 12♂︎♂︎, ant. 20 (1), 21 (3), 22 (1), 23 (6) & 24 (1). D. sp. near glabra Nix. 2♂︎♂︎, ant. 27 & 29. D. areolaris? 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. 21, 23 & 21 respectively. Monoctonus caricis 4♂︎♂︎, 4♀︎♀︎ (ant. 16 (♂︎), 13 (♀︎). Aphidius 10♂︎♂︎, 3♀︎♀︎: 1♂︎, 3♀︎♀︎ mounted = A. sp. ♀︎ +/- smooth post petiole, ant. 16. A. sp. ♂︎ & ♀︎, ant. 18 & 16, rugose post-petiole. A. matricariae? ♀︎, ant. 14, antennal apical segment large! Procto. 1 Cynipids 1. Chalcids 11.