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325. 2nd Aug. 1944. A very fine & warm day but with the usual E. wind along coast. Went by bus to Dollymount & spent the day on the North Bull, where collected by sweeping in four areas, as follows 1 = edge of salt-marsh & golf links for first 1/2 mile (as far as "Curly's Farm". 10.30 AM. till 12 noon. 2 = edge of salt marsh & golf links for mile beyond station 1. 12 noon & after lunch till 2 P.M. 3 = edge of salt-marsh & particularly along drain on edge of St. Anne's links, beyond station 2. 2 P.M. till 3.30 P.M. [Had aft. tea at Lady Anne's Bank & after tea swept at 4] 4 = Sand-flat SE of Lady Anne's Bank, & chiefly on and around the Alder bushes. 4 till 4.45 P.M. [Left Lady Anne's Bank at 4.57 & reached bus at 5 P.M. & home at 5.40!] Bombus terrestis ☿☿ & ♂︎♂︎ seen B. lucorum ☿☿ B. muscorum ☿☿ Pompilus plumbeus at 4. Apis mellifera ☿☿ very numerous & all seen were at flowers of Statice, which is just at its best. Plusia gamma fresh specimen seen at 4. 326. 2.8.44, cont. N. Bull, Co. DU. Taken at 1. [16 from 1 mounted & these labelled & put away in Oct. 1947.] Cryptinids 4: 1 mtd. = Pezomachus anthracinus? ♀︎, ant. 21. Pimpla turionellae group ♂︎, black coxae: not mtd. Campoplegid very common 18 (♂︎ & ♀︎) in sucker: all one sp.? 1♂︎ & 1♀︎ mtd. ant. ♂︎ 18, ♀︎ broken = Bracon anthracinus 1♂︎, 1♀︎: not mtd. Apanteles fraternus? 2♂︎♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎: 1♂︎ & 1♀︎ mtd. A. falcatus ♂︎: not mtd. Perilitus aethiops? 1♂︎: not mtd. Aspilota (Synaldis) parvicornis? ♂︎, ant. 21; small specimen. Dacnusa areolaris? ♂︎. D. "anasella" miki 4♂︎♂︎ (ant. 23, 23, 24 & broken): Nixon in letter dated 14.1.47 says he thinks this must be a dark-legged var. of D. amasis, which to me seems most improbable! Monoctonus caricis ♂︎, ant. 16. Ephedrus plagiator ♀︎, ant. bitten off by Psocid in store. Aphidius cf. renominatus ♀︎, ant. 15; but legs dark & rather large specimen! Chalcids very abundant: 7 in sucker. Proctos. 3. Taken in Westropp's garden, Clonskeagh, Dublin on 31.7.1944. Hemiteles ♀︎, ant. 22. Clistopyga sauberi ♂︎, ant. 23. Meteorus chrysophthalmus ♂︎, ant. 40. Spathius exarator ♀︎, ant. 32 (?) Procto. 1 =