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297. 30.3.46, cont. Bellurgan, Co. Louth, cont. Several small sandpits in moraine, where collected some bees, & ants; & swift rushy marshes & looked in vain for sawflies: very nice collecting grounds about here, with reed beds, Juncus effusus & willows, but just too early for hymenoptera. Took or saw the following:- [12 mounted & these labelled 21.2.49!] Small Tortoiseshell & Peacock Butterflies: Bomus [[Bombus]] lucorum several & B. jonellus 1♀︎ on Dandelion Andrena gwynana (= bicolor) ♂︎. A. minutula 4♂︎♂︎, very fresh. Myrmica laevinodis Common. M. ruginodis 1 nest. Vespa rufa ♀︎ seen at The Rectory; where in garden got a pretty little buffish-yellow violet, without scent. Ichneumon suspiciosus? ♀︎ in sandpit; ant. 36; var. dark legs. Apanteles fulvipes group 2♀︎♀︎: Dacnusa laevipectus 3♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎ all with very dark legs!: 2♂︎, 1♀︎ mtd., ant. 21(♂︎♂︎) & 22 (♀︎) Monoctonus caricis ♀︎, ant. 13 & ♂︎, ant. 15, small. Aphidius spp. 2: 1♂︎ mtd., ant. 13, dark legs, very small. = Procto. 1 mtd. = Chalcids 1. not mtd. Beetles for O'Mahoney. The snail Helicella intersecta (= caperata) very abundant in & around sandpit. Willow Wren heard in various spots at Bellurgan. Returned by 3.42 train in Bellurgan & reached home at 7 pm. 298. 25th - 31st March 1946 - 1st April. All days fine, foggy at night & in morning, but sun rest of day & clouds only on 28th. In garden the following notes made:- 1st flower in Anemone appenina opened on 29th, 3 out by 31st Bombus jonellus ♀︎ seen in garden on 31st at Flowering Currant & later at Mediterranean Heath. 1st Ap. Bombus terrestris 1♀︎, B. lucorum 1♀︎, B. jonellus 1♀︎ seen at Flowering Currant during evening (7 P.M.) while planting potatoes — six rows planted in main plot in back garden. Flower spikes on Carex stricta well up on 31st & also one on Carex rigida from Muilrea (for 1st time); & on C. montana. Buds on several "mossies" showing, especially on Sax. sternbergii, in back garden, on 1st April. Small White Butterfly seen in garden on 31st & another on 1st April. 2nd April 1946. George, who is home on leave, reported seeing a Brimstone Butterfly in a garden in Castlewood Avenue, Rathmore, during the afternoon, when going to Ranelagh on a bus.