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102. 22.9.46, cont. Enniskerry, Co. WI., cont. Aspilota spp. &c. 8 = Orthostigma sp. ♀︎, ant.20; v. small. A. fuscescens? 1♂︎, ant. 20; larger ♀︎, ant.19; long narrow 2nd cubital areolet! A. clara 1 very red & typical ♂︎, ant. 21. A. picticornis? m. 2♂︎♂︎, ant. 16 & 17; 1♀︎, ant.17. A. (Synaldis) sp. ♂︎, ant.22. Dacnusa areolaris, maculipes, longiradialis, & pubescens examined but not mounted; & seven other Dacnusae = D. adducta, 1 very fine ♀︎, ant. 30. D. abdita ♀︎, ant. 32. D. melanocera 1 mutilated & abnormal ♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎ (ant. 24 & 25). D. sp. ovalis group, small ♀︎, ant. 24 = D. cf. bres Nixon, 1 small ♂︎, ant. 31, rather dark legs. Praon abjectum ♀︎ Trioxys testaceus mike ♀︎ Paratype! See EMM May 1948 Aphidius crepidis ♀︎, ant. 13. Proctos, 16: 5 mtd. = Chalcids 8: not mtd. Cynipid 1: not mtd Weevil: not mtd. Given to E.O'M. 25.9.4.6 Hemiteles ♀︎, ant. 22 taken in house, 14 Clareville Rd., Harold's Cross, Dublin. 103. 26th Sept. 1946. A poor day after two fine days; with rain blowing in S.E. gale, sometimes drizzle & almost rain, sometimes so slight as not to wet anything. Left home at 11.30 in car, with Desmond Meikle on board, & drove to Skerries Bog, Co. Kildare. Collected by sweeping birch & willows, &c. from 1.30 till 4 P.M., after lunch on arrival at 1 P.M. Collected in almost exactly same places as on 19th; i.e. birch, &c. along track parallel to & about 300 yards N. of railway from Monasterevan to Athy. Many insects out owing to high temperature & humidity, but what would have been a marvellous collecting day spoiled, or almost so, by gale. Very few Braconids taken (- probably owing to wind) & the number of spider-parasites (Polysphincta spp.) rather remarkable. [9 mounted labelled on 26.1.1947 as G.J. Kerrich wanted to borrow Cteniscids.] [60 more mtd. & these labelled on 20.12.49 et seq.] Skerries Bog, Co. KD. (as on 19.9.46) Bombus agrorum 1☿ (or ♂︎?) seen: the only Bumble. Colletes succinctus ♀︎ swept, in first sweep: no doubt had been out in sun earlier, as sunny in Dublin till 11 A.M. Ick. vol.1 2 only = Platylabus iridipennis? ♀︎, ant. 33. Labelled 26.1.47. & Gen. et sp.? cf. Eparches Forst.? small ♀︎, with very short transverse face & clypeus, & yellow mark beside base of 21-seg. antennae = Herpestomus?
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