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311. 4.5.46, cont. Brockagh, Co. KD. Insects taken at 2 = grass, meadowsweet &c. in sawfly hollow, with Hippurus, Salix aurita, Betula, under shade of Pine plantation, near Brockagh. Co. KD. Hemiteles bicolorinus group 1♂︎. } None mtd. H. sp. ♀︎ } None mtd. Phygadeuon? 3♂︎♂︎ } None mtd. Pimpla sp. 1♂︎ } None mtd. Phytodiaetus sp. ♂︎ } None mtd. Mesoleius sp. ♂︎ } None mtd. Homocidus cinctus ♂︎, ant. 22. Stenomacrus ridibundus? ♀︎, ant. 23. Campoplegids 5, including Dioctes exareolaris 1♂︎, 1♀︎, none mtd. Mesochorus ♂︎: not mtd. Oncophanes minutus? 1♀︎, 6♂︎♂︎: ♀︎ & 2♂︎♂︎ mtd, ant. 21 (♀︎), 23 & 24. Earinus ochropes? 1♂︎, 1♀︎, ant 34 & 32. Adelura flaviventris ♂︎, ant. 29. Dacnusa aphanta 1 large ♂︎: not mtd. D. areolaris, maculipes 1, longiradialis & laevipectus all examined D. maculipes 1♂︎ with sternauli! Ant. 23 312. 4.5.46, cont. Brockagh, Co. KD. cont. Taken at 2, cont. [No Aphidiidae!] Proctos. 5: 2 mtd. = Disogmus sp. ♂︎ & Chalcids 1 } not mtd. Cynipid 1 } not mtd. First Swifts seen at 14 Clareville Rd. on evening of 9th May. 12th May 1946. A most perfect day: hot sun from sunrise to sunset, wind E. & strong but not so cold & dry as previous week; some haze (& mist in early morning). Left home in car at 10 AM & drove to Glen of Imaal: arrived at Coan about 11.30 & walked up the Little Slaney for a mile & then cut up on to ridge above Camara Hill & saw Lycopodium alpinus & clavatum in usual place. Every place very dry & vegetation in consequence very backward. Continued up ridge & then cut round into North Prison & had lunch beside Brunker's station for Saxifraga hypnoides. After lunch continued up the Prison to the tarn