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341. 21.7.46, aft. cont. Royal Canal, KD., cont. Pentapleura pumilio ♀︎: not mtd. Prosapha speculum ♂︎, ant. 18, mtd. on its back! Aspilota (S.) levis? ♀︎: ant. 16 A. (Synaldis) parvicornis?? - too large ♂︎, ant. 22 Dacnusa marsyas Nixon: a beautiful ♀︎; ant. 34. D. misella ♀︎, ant. 23. D. Gyrocampa trichopyga √ ♀︎, ant. 27. Aberlow pond species! wings clearer than type series! Coelinius similis m. ♂︎, ant. 39. Aphidius avenae?? ♀︎: not mtd A. sp. ♂︎: not mtd. Proctos 4 including Inostimma sp. ♀︎. Chalcids abundant: 15 in sucker; none mtd. Cynipid 1 red abd: not mtd. Diptera 2 = Coleoptera 2 = Hypera plantaginis & Tachyporus cf. transversus 24.7.46. Ick. Phaedroctonus cremastoides ♀︎, ant. 35, taken in motor house at 14 Clareville Rd. Harold's Cross, Dublin. 342. 25th (Thursday) July 1946 A fine day, warm, mainly dull, wind strong SE on coast, SW inland. Drove J.P. Brunker to Magherabeg, Co. Wicklow to look for the hybrid sedge Carex vesicaria x hirta taken here by him last year unknowingly: as he did not recognise it at the time he was not sure exactly where he collected it, but he knew it was somewhere around the lagoon between the sandhills & old coast-line. Did not see the hybrid but vesicaria all over & around the lagoon & several patches of large hirta at N. end of lagoon, where I feel sure B. gathered the hybrid, as no hirta seen by the lagoon elsewhere. Hybrid refound at SE corner in 1948! AWS. Other sedges seen were arenaria & goodenowii (? var. juncella) only. Swept insects for an hour before lunch & two hours after lunch as follows:- 1. Vegetation / mainly sedge & Mentha aquatica at S.E. corner of lagoon. 12 noon - 1 P.M. 2. Reed, sedges, &c. at N. end of lagoon 2.30-4 PM. 3. Dunes, marran grass, &c. between 2 & sea. 4:15-4.40 P.M. Left for home at 5 P.M. & home at 6.25 P.M.