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9th Oct 1946.  

A fine sunny morning & forenoon, with very strong E-NE keen wind;  afternoon entirely dull with lowering clouds - almost like snow clouds! - & wind stronger than ever.

In afternoon drove via Kilbride, Ballyward & Blessington to Glending before we got any shelter:  in Glending absolute shelter & many insects on Wicklow side in remains of old wood (now plantation!) on ash, oak, &c., but none taken on new conifers:  filled one sucker here 3.30 to 4.30, but midges very troublesome, so retired to marsh at NW end of the overflow channel, in Co. KD., & swept flooded edge of pond & drain under hedge W. of pond, 4.30-5 PM.

1 = Wood on Wicklow side of Glending
2 = Marsh, drain & field in Kildare side of Glending overflow channel 2 miles NW of Blessington

[26 mounted from 1 & these labelled 30.1.1950.]

9.10.46 (1). Glending wood, Co. WI 

Dicaelotus pumilis  ♀︎, ant. 20.
Phaeogenes fulvitarsis  ♀︎; ant. 24 & almost entirely testaceous!


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9.10.46 (1) cont.  Glending wood, WI, cont. 

Cryptinids 30 mostly ♀︎♀︎, including Leptocryptus aereus?  10♀︎♀︎ - not mtd.
Hemiteles cf. politus?  8♀︎♀︎ (2 kept) - ant. both 28 & several other Hemiteles: none mtd.
Pezomachus rufulus?  2 all red ♀︎♀︎ not mtd.
P. sp.  1♀︎ black, ant. only 17.
Stilpnus gagates  ♂︎: not mtd.
Orthocentrus radialis  1♀︎: not mtd.
Stenomacrus varicornis m.  2♀︎♀︎, ant. 21 & 22.
St. ventralis  3♂︎♂︎, 6♀︎♀︎:  no doubt abundant:  none mtd.
Promethes scutellatus  ♂︎, ant. 26.
Mesochorus fulgurans?  ♂︎, entirely testaceous, ant. 37.
"Nemeritis" = Phaedroctonus transfugus  8♀︎♀︎:  2 mounted, ant. 27-28; no areolet!
Plectiscid ♀︎, ant. 20 = sp.? of genus "near Eusterinx", fide J.F. Perkins.
Colastes braconius  2♀︎♀︎, one mtd. has 29-seg. antennae.  A very large & finely developed specimen!
Adelura flaviventris  ♂︎, ant. 27.
Phaenocarpa conspurcator ♀︎, not mtd.
Orthostigma curvicaudata m.?  1♀︎; ant. 21;  very nice specimen!
Aspilota sp. 8 = A. [[?albescipes]] m.  2♀︎♀︎, ant. 20 & 24;  very near sylvatica m., last terebra shorter!
A. minutissima m.?  ♀︎, ant. 15, but propodeum much smoother than usual!
A. cf. fuscescens?  ♀︎, ant. 18.
A. sp.?  ♀︎, ant. 17, with slender 3, 4 & 5th segments;  +/- smooth propodeum, &c.
A. fuscicornis  2♂︎♂︎, ant. 16 & 17.
A. picticornis  ♀︎, ant. 16.

Transcription Notes:
Unable to verify albescipes.