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243. 

5.9.45, cont.  Gollierstown, Co. DU., cont.

Taken at 3.   

Hemiteles spp. 1♂︎, 1♀︎.
Perilitus flavipes miki  1♀︎, small, short terebra, wide petiole, long radial cell, &c., 25-seg. ant (see also ♀︎ taken here on (2)25.7.45! A.W.S. 26.11.48.)
Phaenocarpa ruficeps  ♂︎.
Pentapleura pumilio  ♂︎.  
Dacnusa areolaris several.
Aphidius sp.  3♂︎♂︎.
Procto. 1
2 Jumper Beetles =


9th Sept. 1945. 

A fine day, but after a lovely calm morning & night.  A strong cool S.E. wind got up at noon & persisted till sundown. Rode to Athdown, Co. WI.

Left home at 9.45 & arrived at Athdown at 11.55 — 2 hours & ten minutes, where not a breath of wind & insects very plentiful, but a few minutes later the S.E. wind arose & blew steadily all day & as it increased so did the collecting deteriorate.


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9.9.45. cont.  Ca. 900 ft.  Athdown, WI., cont.

Collected in four areas as follows:—

1 = NW. corner of field E. of the dun, this year in potatoes & weeds, last year in turnips.
2 = Left bank of R. Liffey above the footstick for 1/4 mile & chiefly the marsh or scarp above marsh, where Betula, Salix & Corylus.
3 = Right bank of Liffey below the footstick & all round base of the dun (S, W & N sides!) including edge of field of oats W. of dun.
4 = Much same as station 1, but including N. & S sides of field as well as W side, but owing to wind collecting very poor.

[Could not work bank along N. side of this field at all, where so many good things taken in 1944, owing to herd of sheep having been grazing on it when arrived back at 4 P.M., & strong wind.]

Saw one ♂︎ Common Blue Butterfly & several Small Coppers;  also a dead ♂︎ dragonfly Orthetrum coerulescens floating in pool of river below footstick.