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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. 260. 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.