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7.8.45, cont.  Lucan, DU., cont.

Taken at 2. 
[10 mounted from 2 & these labelled 16.12.1948!]

Promethes sulcator  ♂︎:  not mtd.
Hemiteles  ♂︎:  not mtd.
Bracon cf. fraudator?  ♂︎;  tergite 1-3 rugose, reddish;  ant. 33;  nervulus post-fuscal!
Clinocentrus vestigator  ♀︎, ant. 26.
Opius caesus  2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎.
O. cf. levis  1♂︎, ant. 22.
Pentapleura pumilio  1 very small ♀︎:  not mtd.
Aspilota cf. fuscescens?  ♀︎, ant. 17;  2nd cubital very long & narrow
A. cf last ♀︎?  ♂︎, ant. 22.
Dacnusa areolaris group  6
D. pubescens  ♂︎.
D. diremta  ♂︎, ant. 31.
D. (G.) affinis  ♀︎, ant. 22, var. granulata miki (tergite 2 granulate at base)
Aphidius spp. 4:  1 mtd. = Aphidius sp.  ♂︎, ant. 17;  legs dark.
Proctos.  4:  1 mtd. = 
Mymarid 1 = 

On 9.8.1945 Desmond P. Walls took winged sexes of Tetramorium caespitum at nest by path along railway to mens bathing place, &c. W. side of railway, just inside gate off Vico Rd., Sorrento, below path, Co. Dublin.

On 11.8.1945 Desmond P. Walls discovered nest of Lasius mixtus with winged sexes in field opposite Hotel & below road at Drumgoff, Glenmalure, Co. Wicklow.


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12th August, 1945.

A fine day at end of a perfect summer's week;  warm with gentle E. breeze but misty clouds covered the hills nearly all day until 5 P.M.  George home on leave from Germany, so all three went by 10 A.M. bus to Old Bawn & walked (via Marlfield) up to pond in moraine at ca. 1,100 ft. above Ballymaice, Co. DU.

Collected round pond for an hour & more;  then along old track leading to Ballinascorney & finally by springs & river at The Stone Cross, Ballinascorney Gap.  Caught 4.55 bus home from Bohernabreena.

Pond at 1100 ft. rather fouled by cattle but marginal vegetation interesting & worth studying, as it contains much Ranunculus Lenormandi, with Peplis portula, Montia fontana;  in open water Blyceria fluitans the only plant noted.  Remains of other tarns occur W. of track & south of the pond (known as Tumoling or Toomaling Pool according to "Malachi Horan Remembers") but these now nearly destroyed - one however still with open water & much Potomageton (? polygonifolium) with investigation.

Dragonflies Aeschna juncea & Sympetrum scoticum (one each) seen at the pond (= 1);  the latter unrecorded for Co. Dublin.