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8th Oct. 1944. 

A dull mild day after a wet night & a cold week; much milder & nearly raining this morning, with faint breeze from N. in Dublin, but W. out over the plain & sun over Naas in afternoon.  

In afternoon rode on bikes to Rathcoole then took Rathmore road for a couple of miles to Johnstown Ho., where turned left & over shoulder of Slieve Thoule to Brittas Ponds, Crooksling & home.  

Collected a few hymenoptera off bramble leaves, &c., by roadside at 800 ft alt. (= 1) & on oaks (= 2) in small glen below road at 1,000 ft. where still some small stunted native oaks on both side of road, though most of those above road cut down when new Forestry plantation made, a few years ago. 

At 800 & 1,000 ft. on road W. slope of Slieve Thoule, Co. DU. 
[12 specimens mounted & these labelled on 31.1.1948.] 

Atractodes sp.  1 at 1, ant. 24.
Stenomacrus ventralis  ♂︎ at 2 on oak: not mtd.
St. cf. vafer?   2♂︎♂︎, yellow face, on oak at 2, ant. 21. 
Mesochorus sp. in spider's web at 1, ant. 39.


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8.10.44, cont.  W. of Slieve Thoule, DU., cont. 

Colastes braconius  2♀︎♀︎ on oak at at 2: 1 mtd. ant. 31 (mutilated by Psocid while in store). 
Rogas circumscriptus?  ♀︎ on bramble at 1, ant. 38
Phaenoserphid  ♂︎ at 1.
Phaenoserphid  ♀︎ at 2.
1 Other Procto. ♀︎, at 1 = Trichopria? 
[One Bombus ♀︎ seen near Rathcoole, probably lucorum!]


15th Oct. 1944. 

A lovely morning & midday, very hot sun, slight W-SW breeze, after a bad week, cold & often very wet for the most part. 

As Daisy had had a cold we did not attempt to go out for the day, but in afternoon we rode via the Green Hills to top of old aerodrome at Tallaght & round it to near Jobstown & home via Tallaght & Templeogue, during which time a SE. wind arose & caused a jam, with rain on hills as we came home.  This later cleared & evening fine till sunset, but sky very bad.  Aurora seen to N. on previous night, but below horizon.  Did not collect.
 
In forenoon dozens of male wasps seen in garden (at Rhamnus catharticus bush) & along hedge in Clareville Rd. & Kenilworth Square ([[fide Daisy!). 

Took 1♀︎ Hemiteles bicolorinus group in back garden at noon, ant. 22. 

10-10-1944. 
Aspilota vesparum ♀︎, ant. 16, taken on window in Museum, Dublin. 

Transcription Notes:
Slieve Thoule = Slievethoul, Ireland.