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309. 4th May 1946. Another beautiful day, with very hot sun & strong cool easterly breeze. Drove, alone, with D. Meikle to Osberstown, S. of Sallins Co. KD. & spent 1 1/2 hour along right bank of R. Liffey, where a bend of the river comes close beside the road, 1 mile S. of Osberstown House - Meikle studying the hybrid = willows which grows there & I sweeping icks = 1. Meikle also found there, around a limey spring, an Equisetum like trachyodon, but perhaps only a [[?laa]], branched & semi-decumbent form of variegatum. Left home about 10.45 & left Osberstown at 1 o'clock then drove on via Robertstown to main road from Clare to Edenderry, where turned car at Brockagh near Allenwood in order to let Meikle see a bit of a real "High Bog", with Andromeda, Drosera anglica, Lycopodium Selago, Rhynchospora fusca & alba &. = 2 Swept some insects beside the R. Liffey at 1 & others in a plantation of Scots Pine, with Birch & willow scrub &c. at 2. Sedge Warbler heard & many Swallows seen during day! 310. 4.5.46 cont. Insects swept on right bank of R. Liffey 1 mile S. of Osberstown, near Sallins, Co. KD. = 4.5.46(1). [10 mounted from 1 & these labelled 25.2.1949.] Sawflies: one ♀︎ pale-marked Pteroniden seen on Salix but not captured. Two small black species - ♀︎ & 1♂︎ Empria also taken = Empria tridens? ♂︎ }AWS! 25.2.49 E. pumila? ♀ } AWS! 25.2.49. Many Aculeates seen flying, but all appeared to be common species of Andrena & Nomada & none caught or examined. Leptocryptus sp. ♀︎, red abd.; ant. 27. Phygadeuon? 2♂︎♂︎: not mtd. Pimpla cf. sagax? ♂︎, ant. 23, red femora; larger {runs to P. sagax because of very much bent front tibiae! AWS. P. ♂︎, ant. 20; blackish femora; smaller. Bassus tricinctus ♂︎♂︎ common } neither mtd. Promethes pulchellus ♂︎♂︎ } neither mtd. Campoplegids 2♀︎♀︎ 2 spp. none mt. Thersilochid ♂︎: not mtd. Sigalphus aciculatus? ♂︎♂︎ abundant at Salix: 2 mtd., ant. 26 & 27. Aspilota nigresens 1 ♂ - not mtd. Dacnusa longiradialis 2♂︎♂︎: not mtd Dacnusa laevipectus v. tibialis miki ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ frequent & D. aphanta ♂︎ none mtd. Monoctonus caricis 1♂︎: not mtd. tibialis [[?]]: not mtd. Trioxys cf. angelicae ♀︎; ant. 11; very small. Aphidius spp. 6♂︎♂︎: 1 mtd. = A. cf. dauci ant. 17 Ephedrus lacertosus 1 huge ♀︎ ant. 11. 2 Chalcids
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