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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!


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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.