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147.

28.5.44, Aft. = "3".  Ballinacourty, ST. cont.

Insects taken in woods on way up & down from Slieve-na-muck ridge, N. of ruins of Ballinacourty HO.  4.30-7.30 P.M.  
[20 mounted & these labelled [AWS B'c't'y. Co ST. AWS. (3) 28.5.44] 3.12.46! AWS}

Anteon  ♂︎, large sp.
Formica rufa  ☿☿, some very large, some very small, taken on ant-pathway across boundary ditch at top of wood roughly in line between 2nd row of trees W. of old garden & the craggy part of Slieve-na-muck ridge (See previous page & sketch map.).
F. fusca: not mtd.
Myrmica spp. common in woods, but not examined on this date.
Bombus hortorum  ♀︎ queen seen
B. jonellus  ☿ seen at Vaccinium at foot of woods.
B. lucorum & agrorum  ♀︎♀︎ seen on ridge & bumbles frequently heard on the higher ground.
[No other aculeates seen all afternoon in spite of heat & considerable sun!]

Dolerus ferrgatus √  ♂︎ in swapm where no Equisetum seen.
Tenthredo "arcuata"  ♀︎ in meadow near house.
Euura sp.  ♀︎.
Cryptinids  2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎:  ♀︎ - damaged? only mtd. ant. 22 = Microcryptus
Promethes pulchellus  ♂︎ not mtd.
Cteniscus  red ♂︎.
Homocidus bizonarius  ♂︎, ant. 21.
Orthocentrus or Stenomacrus?  very elogate ♂︎, ant. 31 =
Campoplegid  ♀︎, ant. 30 {Omorga?
Thersilochid  ♀︎, ant. 18 = {

Pentapleura pumilio  ♀︎.
Phaenocarpa conspurcator  ♀︎ not mtd.
Aphidius cf. sonchi, var. v. narrow tergite 1  ♀︎, ant. 18

Procto 1 } not mtd.
Chalcid  1
Cynipid  1 } not mtd.
Beetles 1 mtd. = Rhizophagus perforatus Er.


148.

Whit Monday!  29th May 1944.

A terrifically hot day, all sunny & with scarcely a breath of wind even on summit of Galtymore.  Left hotel about 11 AM. & rode across valley, then walked up Glancushnabinnia & across moor & up outlet of L. Diheen, where had lunch in shade of rock at foot of cliffs & near shore.  On way across valley passed over considerable wet area with Drosera rotundifolia at ca. 800-900 ft., with Myosotis repens, Montia fontana &c., but saw no sign of Pinguicula lusitanica (recorded by Hart from near this place!), P. vulgaris or Viola palustris, all of which one would expect to occur on such ground.  In crossing stream coming down big gully on N.W. face of Galymore stopped to examine a Rowan tree in full flower at ca. 900 ft. & surrounded with a mass of insects, the most exciting of which were about half a dozen ♂︎♂︎ of Trichiosoma which every now & then contended in mid air as if to drive the other fellow away (just as described by Benson in E.M.M.?):  by climbing tree which overhung

[[marginalia]]  3 captured & one sent to Benson who agreed it was "probably" the Mountain Ash-feeding species!  AWS. 1946. [[/marginalia]]