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1.6.44, Evening.

Ponds & swamp in Ballinacourty woods behind Castlereagh House ruins & W. edge of field in front of latter.

2 = Ponds (as in stations 1 & 2 on 28.5.44!) 8.30 - 9.0 P.M.  Very windy & none of the good Dacnusae about.

3 = Swamp behind Castlereagh Ho. (really an extension of the second (eastern) pond at 2) & W. side of field in front of same down to road.  9.0 - 9.30 P.M.

Taken at 2 & labelled B'c't'y. (2) 1.6.44.
[27 mounted from 2 & these labelled on 10.12.1946!]

Sawfly.  Tomostothus abdominalis  ♀︎

Cryptinids 7 - all mounted! including a ♂︎ & ♀︎ Pezomachus cf. rufulus taken in same "sweep", ant. 22 ♂︎, 20 ♀︎.
Hemiteles sp.  ♀︎, ant. 25.
Hem.? sp.?  ♂︎, ant. 23.
Phygadeuonid  ♂︎ black femora, ant. 21.
Phygadeuonid  ♂︎, red femora, ant. 28.
Stenomacrus sp. near confinis  ♀︎, ant. 24;  very stout, matt-rugose tergite 1
Zootrephus suspiciosus  ♂︎ & ♀︎, ant. 21 & 20.

Bracon  3♂︎♂︎ = B. fulvipes  a typical ♂︎, ant. 39;  also a dark ♂︎ with also 39-seg. ant. probably same species, but several minor differences!
B. sp. near nigratus  ♂︎, ant. 33;  but tergite 4 smooth, &c.


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1.6.44, cont.  Ballinacourty, ST. cont.

Taken at 2, cont.

Apanteles cf. triangulator or fraternus:  dark wings, &c.  1♂︎, 3♀︎♀︎.
Opius irregularis  ♂︎, ant. 24.
Aspilota sp.?  ♀︎, near cynipidis but dark, slenderer, 19-seg. ant.
Dacnusa laevipectus?  ♀︎, ant. 23, sinuate radius
D. affinis?  ♂︎, ant. 25.  Var. nigriscaposa or sp. n.?  AWS. 31.12.1946.
D. siniffa  ♀︎, ant. 28.
Aphidius sp.?  ♂︎, pale abd., ant. 18.

Proctos.  2.
Chalcid  1.
Donacia & many small beetles swept off Eleocharis, &c.  Given to E. O'Mahony.