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203. 8th June 1944. A dull, mild, day with almost constant drizzle in hills & in valley in afternoon & rain in evening. Glass down all day. Did not go out till nearly 6 P.M. & set insects all day. At 6 P.M. walked up Tipperary road & tried sweeping ditch on sheltered side, but rain coming on had to give up. Later in spite of wet tried sweeping Eleocharis, &c., at E. end of eastern pond in Ballinacourty woods as on 28/5/44, station 2. Aherlow, ST. Roadside = (1.) 8.6 44. Cryptinids 2♂︎♂︎ } none mtd. Campoplegid ♀︎ } none mtd. Microctonus cf. cultus? ♂︎, ant. 22. Opius cf. communis m. (♂︎?), ant. 24 Orthostigma maculipes ♀︎, very small, ant. 18. Monoctonus caricis ♂︎: not mtd. Platygaster 9 } none mtd. Chalcid 3 } none mtd. 204. 8.6.44, cont. Ballinacourty pond, ST. = (2) 8.6.44. Taken at 2 Pond. [All five from 2 mounted & these labelled [B'c't'y. p. Co. ST. AWS. (2) 8.6.44] 26.12.1946!] Cryptinids 1♂︎ = Hemiteles sp. ♂︎, ant. 21. Bracon cf. hispiterga m. ♂︎, ant. 32; rugose propodeum & very much rejected recurrent nerve! Dacnusa trichopyga m. ♂︎, ant. 31. Chorebidea femoralis m. 2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 16. 9th June 1944. A fine, dry, day, but mainly dull & with chilly NW wind, strong at times: considerable sun in late aft. & evening. Did not go out till after lunch, 3 P.M.; then went into Ballinacourty estate & swept in five areas, as follows:- 1 = edges of both ponds in woods behind Castlereagh Ho. 2 = swamp W. of ponds where much Equisetum sylvaticum. 3 = edges of cornfields & weeds where last years thrashing to corn was done, E. of Ballinacourty Ho. 4 = edge of pond S. of Ballinacourty H., in old pleasure grounds! 5 = hollow (under alders) & around pond 1/4 mile E of Ballinacourty Ho. & where cattle drink.
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Unable to verify hispiterga