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315.

13th - 26th May 1946.

Weather continued mainly dry (rain only on a couple of days 18th & 20th) with strong cold E, SE or NE wind & often very hot sun so that there was very little growth in garden, though many plants came slowly into flower.  The rain on 18th gave a fillip to some things, but the cold dry wind & sun quickly stopped growth again.  On 22nd (Wed.) took car to Ballinascorney Gap (via Crooksling & Brittas) & walked up ridge from Slievenabawnoge towards Ballymorefin Hill & back:  very hot sun & S. wind (SE. in Dublin), but did not collect except Dolerus aeneus ♂︎ at ca. 1300 ft.  Many swifts seen along the ridge - alt 1100 to 1300 ft. & in shelter of Slievenabawnoge, on way home from Gap, saw more Swallows, House Martins & Swifts than previously this season.

Prepared garden, fed snails, &c. on 25th-27th before going on holidays to Cloghane, Dingle Promontory, Co. Kerry (S), on 28th: for account of which trip see Vol. 16 of this diary.

On 20.5.1946 took a Tryphonine-Mesoleine ♀︎ ant. 30 in motor-house 14 Clareville Rd., Harold's Cross =


316.

Collected for me by Philip Harwood in a marshy spot called "The Bogah" at Loch Alvie cottage, near Aviemore, E. Inverness, Scotland.

- NB. These were really swept on 25th - see Harwood's letter dated & posted on 26th! AWS.

26th June 1946. 

The following 22 mounted & these labelled 1.3.1949!

Adelognathus cf. nigrifrons Holmgr.  ♂︎ ant. 14.
Bracon cf. hylobic Ratz., a beautiful ♀︎ ant. 30.
B. satanas  3♂︎♂︎, ant. all mutilated, but 36 segments remain on one.
B. nigratus  ♂︎ ant. 29. 
B. sp. near communis miki,  ♂︎ ant. 28 but wings small & almost clear!
Oncophanes lanceolator, immature ♂︎, ant. 23.
Microplitis sp. incog  1♂︎, 1♀︎, tergite elongate & rugose, stigma pale at base &c.
Euphorus cf. antennatus miki (? = nitidus Curtis), ♀︎?, ant. testaceous, 22-seg., &c.
Centistes lucidator  ♀︎ ant. 23. 
Phaenocarpa notabilis Stelfox  2♀︎♀︎, ant. 35 & 37
Dacnusa pubescens, 1 large ♂︎, ant. 27. 
D. gilvipes  ♂︎, ant. 29.
D. merella Nixon, a huge ♂︎, ant. 37; mid lobe of mesonotum scabrous!
D. eros Nixon, ♀︎, ant. 37. 
D. obesa mihi, ♂︎, ant. 31; very nice specimen!
D. curtipalpis Nixon, ♂︎, ant. 32.
D. sp. near dirona Nixon?, in ovalis group,  ♂︎ (?), ant. 32.
Oenone ringens Hal.  1 ant. 37.
Procto 1 Disogmus  ♂︎.

List of species taken on 26.6 continued on inset p.316A. A.W.S. 9.11.1949.


4-6 July 1946. 

Sent by P. Harwood with letter of 6th July & although his label read 4 & 6 July, I believe all those listed below were swept around the reservoir of the Aviemore Hotel on the afternoon of 6th.  They are however all labelled [4-6.7.46] A.W.S. 3/3/49.

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