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23.6.46, cont.  Landenstown, Co. KD., cont.

Taken at 2.
[17 mtd. from 2, including 9 Donacia, & these labelled 28.2.49!]

Dolerus palustris  ♂︎: not mtd.
Ichneumon latrator?  ♀︎: not mtd.
I.?  ♂︎ = not mtd.
Atractodes  small ♂︎, ant 26.
Pimpla similis?  ♀︎, ant. 23.
Mesochorus  small ♂︎ = not mtd.
Meloboris  ♂︎, red coxae:  not mtd.
Bracon undulatus m.  ♀︎, ant. 30;  very nice specimen.
Ascogaster sp.?  1, ant. 33;  runs to ratzeburgi in Marshall?
Apanteles fulvipes group  ♂︎: not mtd.
Microgaster cf. globatus group  ♂︎.
Opius caesus ♂︎ & O. irregularis ♀︎, neither mtd.
O. lugens  ♀︎, ant. 19.
Pentapleura pumilio  ♂︎: not mtd.
Dacnusa pubescens ♂︎ & D. longiradialis ♂︎:  neither mtd.
D. areolaris  ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ frequent:  none mtd.
D. cytherea Nixon vera?  ♂︎, ant. 29.
D. elegantula  ♀︎; ant. 28
Aphidius sp.  ♂︎ } none mtd.
Chalcids  2 } none mtd.
Cynipid  1 } none mtd.

Beetles:-
9 Donacia = 
D. clavipes  1.
D. simplex (= linearis) 1.
D. sericea  3.
D. discolor (- comari) 4.

For dates between 23.6.46 & 11.8.1946 see end of previous volume.  AWS.

♀︎ Cryptinid, ant. 24 taken by E. O'Mahony at Clontarf, Co. DU., on 27.6.1946 = 


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August 1946.  Continued from Vol. 15.

11th August 1946:

A fine forenoon & midday.  After a fine day & night, with rapidly rising glass;  followed by a jam when wind went SE. & heavy rain & drip from 4 P.M. onwards.

Left home in car at 2 PM. & drove to Landenstown, Co. KD., on Grand Canal;  arrived there about 2.30, when everything seemed set for a fine afternoon, but SE. wind soon rose & jam formed to sough & by 3 P.M. it was obvious that rain would soon follow;  at 3.30 wind dropped dead;  at 3.50 squall from S. heralded the rain, which commenced a few minutes later.  Left Landenstown at 4.30 & returned via Celbridge & Lucan arriving home about 5.30.

Collected in two areas before rain at Landenstown, as follows:-

1 = Drain S. of road, plantation, reed-bed by drain S. of plantation & NW corner of hay field S. of plantation, 1/4 mile E. of Landenstown Ho.

2 = W. edge of S. end of last field which was in oats & rather weedy.