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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.
  

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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.