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175. 25th July 1945. The best day for a long time & mainly dull, with light E-breeze, but some very hot sun-bursts. Took day off & left home about 10 AM. on bikes & rode via Baldonnell to Ballymakaily Bridge & up (W.) Grand Canal to Gollierstown Bridge. Collected in six places along canal as follows:- 11.0-11.45 AM. 1 = Edge of towpath & canal for 1/4 mile W. of Ballymakaily Bridge & Mill: N. side of canal. 11.45-1 P.M. 2 = Margin of pond, E. of Gollierstown, N. of canal, & 1/4 mile W. of Ballymakaily. 2.0-4.0 P.M. 3 = Margin of grassy holes, &c., S. of canal just W. of Gollierstown Bridge (i.e. 1 mile W. of Ballymakaily Br.). 4.30-5 P.M. 4 = Under trees, in field, & swampy hollow in field N. of Canal 1/4 mile W. of Gollierstown Bridge 5.0-5.45 5 = Old quarry = 4th pond! pond N. of canal 1/4 mile W. of Gollierstown Brid. 5.45-6.15. 6 = Pond by tow path N. of canal just W. of Gollierstown Br. Left Gollierstown Bridge at 6.15 P.M. & rode down canal to Clondalkin & home at about 7.30. Very few Aculeates seen & the only one of interest was a worker Bombus sylvarum swept at 3. Anteon ruficornis? ♀︎ at 1 Sawflies. Ametastegia glabrata ♂︎ at 2 Pachynematus clitellatus at 3. Allantus cinctus ♀︎ at 1. Ants. Myrmica laevinodis: marriage flight: ♂︎ & ♀︎ mounted! 176. 25.7.45, cont. Gollierstown, Co. DU. Taken at 1. [42 mounted from 1 & these labelled 23.11.48!] Ichneumon sp. ♂︎. Epitomus pygmaeus √ large ♀︎, ant. 23. Cryptinids 12: 5 mounted = Pezomachus sp. ♀︎, ant. 18. Pezomachus sp. ♀︎, ant. 22. P. sp. ♂︎, ant. 21. Exolytus sp. ♂︎?, ant. 27 Phygadeuon? sp.? ♀︎, small; ant. 18, very short & thick. Promethes dorsalis ♂︎. Stenomacrus sp. n.? ♀︎: very nice looking. = S. flavibasalis sp. n. AWS. Type! ♀︎, ant. 19, yellow at base; tergite 1 short & wide, entirely matt, with two faint keels, &c. Mesochorus nigripes ♂︎, small, ant. 23. Leptopygus harpurus Bracon anthracinus 3♀︎♀︎. B. rugulosus m. ♂︎, ant. 24. B. cf obscurator var. ♂︎, ant. 23, tergite 2 aciculate in centre! See Marshall! Hygroplitis russatus ♂︎ by canal. Apanteles fulvipes group ♂︎. Leiophron muricatus 1♀︎, small, ant. 28. Centistes lucidator ♂︎: not mtd. Opius spp. 2 = O. cf. tacitus? 2 small ♀︎♀︎, ant. 23 & 25. Pentapleura pumilio ♀︎, small, dark legs, ant. 18.