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63 21st Aug. 1946. A dull, damp, afternoon, with Southerly breeze, much warmer than of late, after a fine morning & previous day & night. Almost raining, in fact several skiffs & misty rain on mountains after 4 P.M. In afternoon drove to Grand Canal at Landenstown, Co. KD., arriving at 3 P.M. & collected in four areas & left for home at 7.5 P.M.: home 7.50. Collection as follows by sweeping:- 1 = N. & W. edges of oats in field S. of plantation 1/4 mile E. of Landenstown Ho. 2 = Marsh & ditches &c. at E end of grazing fields S. of Landenstown Ho. & W. of stations 1 & 3. 3 = W. & N. edges of cut hayfield, & drains along S. edge of plantation, between latter & No. 1. 4 = S. margin of Grand Canal; reeds, [[?this]], Bogbean, Typha Glyceria, Mint, &c. &c. between Landenstown lock & plantation E. of same. 64. 21.8.46, cont. Landenstown, Co. KD., cont. Taken at 1. [39 mounted from 1 & these labelled 19.10.49!] Crabro tibialis 1 Bombus distinguendus 1 fresh ♀︎ seen. Ichneumon sp. ♂︎: not mtd. I. sp. ♀︎: not mtd. Cryptinids 8: 2 mounted = Hemiteles ♀︎, ant. 22. Hemiteles, small, black, +/- matt ♂︎, ant. 19 = Acrodactyla degener ♀︎, ant. 22. Lissonota sulphurifera group 1♂︎, black coxae: not mtd. Cteniscids 2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 28. = Tryphon ceratophorus 1♂︎, ant. 34 Promethes cognatus & 1 each; neither mtd. Homocidus signatus ♀︎ - not mtd., pallipes 1 - not mtd., biguttatus ♂︎, black coxae, ant. broken. Mesochorus sp. ♀︎, small, longish terebra; ant. 25. M. spp. ♂︎, larger, & ♂︎ smaller: neither mtd. Campoplegids 2: not mtd. Thersilochid ♀︎, ant. 17, very black sp. = Leptopygus harpurus ♂︎. Bracon communis n.? ♂︎, large, ant. 31, hind tibiae mainly testaceous! B. obscurator? ♂︎, small sp., ant. 22. Colastes braconius ♀︎, not mtd.