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1st June 1944. 

A cool cloudy morning with wind rising about 10 AM. & rain following from SW soon afer.  Cleared in afternoon as wind veered to W. & then NW., with sunny intervals rising temperatures & falling wind.  Barometer recovering from depression during the previous days.  Set insects till lunch & after, but went out for a walk about 5 PM. up through Ballinacourty Woods to moor above (Slieve-na-muck ridge) E. of B. House, along moor to glen that comes down past Mr. Sheppard's house & then down west side of this & so home.

Swept a little on way up in usual spots & a few insects on way down, but mostly around a swampy place on way up & below upper track through woods.

The following insects taken during walk, 1.6.44, aft.  Ballinacourty Woods, ST. 5 till 7.30 PM.
Taken at 1. 
[29 mtd. from 1 & these labelled on 8.12.1946.]

Pamphilius hortorum ♀︎ taken off Daisy's stocking just after brushing through scrub & out on to the moor at top of woods.
Tenthredo ferruginea ♀︎ swept along avenues


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1.6.44, Aft. cont.  Ballinacourty Woods, ST., cont.

Taken at 1, cont.

Cryptinids  2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎:  last only mounted = Hemiteles? sp. ♀︎, ant. 25, abd. strongly sculptured, &c.  Looks interesting:  abd. tergites white margined, hind tibiae narrowed at base.
Acrodactyla degener √  ♀︎, ant. 22.
Stenomacrus laricis  1♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. 27 & 28.
St. cf. merula  ♂︎, ant. 26.
St. ventralis  2♀︎♀︎:  1st of this species seen this season!
Picrostygeus recticauda  1 large ♀︎, ant. 30.
Cteniscus sp.  1♂︎, ant. 29, red. abd.
Polyblastus westringi  1 large ♂︎, ant. 28
Plectidscis  3♂︎♂︎ ♀︎ = Pantisarthrus sp. ♂︎, ant. 22;  ♀︎, ant. 20.
Plectiscus sp.  ♂︎, ant. 21.
Bracon sp. near obscurator  2♂︎♂︎ ant. 21-23, 1♀︎ ant. 23, tergite 2 smooth, terebra as long as abd.
Apantiles cf. fraternus?  2 (♂︎ & ♀︎)
A. cf. lateralis  1♀︎.
Zele discolor  ♀︎, ant. 45.
Opius levis?  1♂︎, ant. 23.
Aspilota clivosa  ♂︎, small, ant. only 20.
Dacnusa  ♂︎ & ♀︎ (?)
D. cf. ovalis group, ant. 36 ♂︎
D. cf. cytherea group, ant. 31 ♂︎
D. areolaris group  2♀︎♀︎:  not mtd.
Coelinius cf. diversipes? m.  ♂︎, ant. 47, elongate radius & stigma!
Oenone hians  1♀︎ (?) ant. 34.
Proctos  3:  all mtd.
Cynipid  1:  not mtd.