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118. 3.10.46, cont. Skerries Bog, KD, cont. Larvae of Lepidoptera & Tenthredonidae very abundant on birch everywhere & Dunlop by beating & I by sweeping took the following:- Leptidopterous larvae:- pudibunda, Sallow Kitten, Acronycta leporina (2 yellow haired! Dunlop) Bee. Sphecodes hyalinatus ♂︎. Sawfly larvae:- Croesus septentrionalis? Cimbex Abia on Scabiosa succissa! [From a larva on Salix brought home this day, I believe, a ♂︎ Phygadeuon (?) emerged on 14.7.1947 = } 6th Oct. 1946. A fine day, dull for most part, mild, with gentle easterly breeze, after 3 fine days & a drizzly night. Rode on bikes at 11.30 A.M. to Gollierstown, on Grand Canal, Co. DU., where arrived about 12.45. Collected by sweeping in two areas, as follows:- 1 Edges of canal just S. of Gollierstown Bridge & two quarry-holes nearest bridge & S. of canal. 2 Edge of 3rd quarry hole S. of bridge & canal. 119. 6.10.46, cont. Gollierstown Bridge, Co. DU. Taken at 1. [19 mounted from 1 & these labelled 23.1.1950!] Cryptinids 12: 4 mounted = Hemiteles sp. ♀︎, ant. 22. Hemiteles sp. black ♂︎, small; ant. 20. H. sp. small ♀︎, ant. 19. Exolytus sp. small ♂︎, ant. 26. Promethes sulcator ♂︎: not mtd. Homocidus signatus ♀︎: not mtd. H. signatus ♂︎, ant. 22. Stenomacrus curvicaudatus ♂︎, with areolet, ant. 25. Gonotypus melanostoma ♀︎: mtd. on its back! Ant. 25. Sigalphus cf. floricola? ♂︎; late date ? for Sigalphus; ant. 20; tergite 3 almost smooth. Opius caesus ♀︎: not mtd. Pentapleura pumilio large ♂︎: not mtd. Alloea contracta ♀︎: not mtd. Phaneocarpa conspurcator ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ common, the latter on cow pats: not mtd. Aspilota spp. 5, & all mounted = A. dentifemur ♀︎, ant. 20 - very fine specimen! A. nigrescens ♂︎, ant. 21. A. (Synaldis) sp. ♀︎, red tergite 1, ant. 17. A. (S.) sp. ♂︎, ant. 22. A. (S.) sp. small ♂︎, ant. 18.