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245. 25th June 1944. A dull day, with some showers, S.W wind & falling glass. Rode (alone) to Blessington & spent day in Glending (the overflow channel on the WI-KD boundary which cuts through the hills just W. of Blessington). Left home at 10.30, reached foot of Slade of Saggart in just under an hour & Crooksling 17 minutes later; except for one stretch of 300 yards, which walked, rode to Glending in 2 hr. 10 min. without getting off bike; had lunch & then collected as follows:- 1 = edges of Kettle-hole (pond & marsh) at N. end of Glending, Co. KD. 1.30-2.30. 2 = N. end of wood on E. side of Glending, Co. WI. 2.30-3.30 3 = Middle & towards S. end of wood, Co. WI. 3.30-4.30. 4 - marshy pond (Kettle-hole) in field 1/4 mile N. of Blessington (on Dublin road) & on E. side of road. 5 - 5.15. Left station 4 at 23 minutes past 5, reached top of Slade of Saggart (Crooksling) at 5.57 & foot of Slade 7 minutes later & home at 6.33, i.e. 1 hour & ten minutes. 246. 25.6.44, cont. Pond & marsh, Glending, Co. KD. Taken at 1. [36 mounted from 1 & these labelled 4.2.1947.] Anteon ♂︎. Epitriptus pygmaeus ♂︎: not mounted. Cryptinids 36; but only 5 mounted:- as follows. Pezomachus sp. ♂︎, ant. 26. Hemiteles ♂︎, ant. 24. H. sp. 3♂︎♂︎, blackish legs, ant. 20, 21 & 21. Glypta elongata 2♂︎♂︎: not mtd. Acrodactyla degener ♀︎: not mtd. Cteniscus aurifluus ♂︎, ant. 34. Promethes dorsalis 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎: not mtd. P. sulcator ♂︎: not mtd. Exochus cf. consimilis: 1st of season! Ant. 29. Stenomacrus minutus? 1♀︎, ant. 18. Thersilochid ♀︎: not mtd. Meloboris sp. 15 (♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎): none mtd. Bracon fulvipes ♂︎♂︎ abundant & a few ♀︎♀︎. 1♂︎, dark var., only mtd. - ant. 39. B. fuscicoxis 3♀︎♀︎. Microgaster globatus? 6 (♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎): not mtd. Apanteles lateralis √ 1♂︎, mounted!