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44. 19th June '46. A fine day, with some showers & drizzle; strong S.W. wind, cool. Spent day packing & writing letters & notes. Young Cockroach caught in hotel & also a moth which = Agrotis puta Hubner, ♂︎ (fide M.S.D. Westropp!): 4th fresh locality. 20th June 1946. Left Cloghane at 7.45 in hotel car & caught 9 A.M. train from Tralee, arrived Kingsbridge, Dublin, at 6.20 & home 20 minutes later. A day of heavy showers & garden quite wet on arrival home. Took one Staph. beetle in train = END OF KERRY TRIP 21st June 1946. Much warmer & fine all day, with much very hot sun - the first really summer day of the month. Spent day planting Saxifrages, &c. & feeding snails. 22nd June 1946. An intensely hot, sultry, day with fierce sun during most of the time. Back in museum! Left there at 5 P.M. Frank Winder called in evening. 45. 23rd June 1946. Another very hot day, with less sun & falling glass; wind rising in afternoon & strong SW. in evening, when much cooler. Showers, very local, in late afternoon, but we got none. At 2 P.M. left in car & drove to Landenstown (where collected for about three hours), on Grand Canal, W. of Sallin, Co. Kildare. Collected in two places:- 1 = Plantation, with swampy drain & W. edge of hay & oat field S. of road, 1/4 E. of loch at Landenstown Ho. 2 = Edge of canal for 1/8 mile W. of station 1 & towards lock: Iris, reeds, Menyanthes, sedge, grasses, mint &c. along edge of canal. Insects taken at 1. [16 mounted from 1 & these labelled 26.2.1949!] Crabro chrysostomus ♂︎. Anteon ♂︎ } Tenthredo atra ♀︎. } T. mesomelas ♀︎ seen. } Empria ♀︎ } Selandria ♂︎ } } None mtd.