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161. 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 167. 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.