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259.

3.10.45, cont.  Royal Canal, Co.KD. 

Left home about 10:15 & rode to Louisa Bridge, on canal above Leixlip & then W. along canal to Gollierstown Ho. (Mr. Mitchell's) where collected along canal tow-path & in plantation;  later came back & collected along W. & S. sides of stubble field between canal & Maynooth road, as follows:-

1 = Tow-path & edge of canal 1/2 mile W. of Louisa Bridge, outside Mr. Mitchel's plantation.
 2 = Inside walled-plantation at same place.
 3 = W. & S. sides of stubble field (the field that in 1943 was in carrots & turnips & wheat!) between canal & 
Maynooth Rd.  Third field W. of Louisa Bridge.

Aculeates seen during day

Pemphredon shuckardi  ♂︎ caught on beech at 1.
Bombus agrorum  ☿☿ & probably ♂︎♂︎ at 1.
B. hortorum (or lucorum) ♀︎, very fresh seen at 3.
B. lapidarius  faded ♂︎ at 3
B. sylvarum  1♂︎ & possibly 1☿ seen at 3 on Kanpweed & Scabious
Psithyrus campestris  ♂︎ at 1
Vespa vulgaris abundant at ivy at 1.
Apis mellifera abundant at ivy at 1.
Myrmica scabinodis  winged ♂︎ swept at 2.  NB. labelled 1.
M. spp.  ☿☿ seen at 1.


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3.10.45, cont.  R. Canal, KD., cont.

Insects taken at 1.
[20 labelled from 1 & these labelled 28.1.1949.]

Cryptinids 5 & all kept = 
Phygadeuon sp.  ♀︎, ant. 19.
Pezomachus sp.  ♀︎, ant. 19.
Hemiteles sp.  ♀︎, red abd., long terebra, ant. 21.
Hemiteles sp.  ♀︎, red abd., shorter terebra, ant. 21.
H.? sp.  ♂︎, black, ant. 21.

Pimpla depositor  ♀︎, not mtd.
Polyblastus or Erromenus sp.  ♀︎, very red. abd., ant. 28.
Promethes laticarpus  ♂︎:  not mtd.
Homocidus biguttatus?  ♂︎, ant. 24.
Porizon?  Diaparsus?  ♀︎, ant. 31:  same as ♂︎♂︎ taken at Ballinacor Oct. 1942.
Mesochorus sp.  ♀︎, black, ant. 33.
Campoplegid ♀︎ = Biolysia marginella  1 small ♀︎, ant. 24;  most of my specimens of Biolysia were taken early in year!  Does it hibernate?
Apanteles cf. callidus?  1♂︎, 1♀︎.
A. cf. circumscriptus  ♀︎.
Rogas tristis, - black orbits?  small ♀︎, but yet 45-seg. ant.;  very late date for this species!
Phaenocarpa conspurcator  ♀︎:  not mtd.
Aspilota minutissima  ♀︎, ant. 16.
Dacnusa pubescens  2 small ♀︎♀︎ - not mtd.
D. laevipectus  2♀︎♀︎:  not mtd.
D. maculipes  1♀︎ - not mtd.
D. areolaris?  1♂︎, very long radius (but not D. longiradialis), ant. 20, rather pale legs!
D. elegantula  ♀︎:  not mtd.
Praon sp.  ♂︎ (not mtd.)
Monoctonus nervosus √  1 small ♂︎, ant. 17.
Aphidius  3 spp.  3♂︎♂︎:  not mtd.
Proctos.  3:  1 Serphid, only, mtd. = 
Chalcids  3:  none mtd.
Cynipids  1:  not mtd.