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128.

16.10.46, cont.  Glenasmole, Co. DU., cont.

Hoplismenus bispinatorius  ♂︎, ant. 39.
Phygadeuon & Hemiteles  3♀︎♀︎:  1 mounted = Phygadeuon sp. ♀︎, ant. 20
Stenomacrus ventralis abundant;  2♂︎♂︎, 6♀︎♀︎ in sucker:  not mtd.
St. sp.?  2♂︎♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎ = St. cf. merula  1♂︎ (ant. 25), 1♀︎ (ant. 24).
St. cf. vafer  1♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. 21 & 20, respectively;  but stigma dark!
Homocidus pectoratorius  ♂︎, ant. 20.
Polyblastus?  1, ant. 28.
Gen. et sp.?  ♀︎ = and. 32.  Mesoleid?
Meteorus ictericus  ♀︎, ant. 32.
Blacus ruficornis  ♀︎: not mtd.
Phaenocarpa ruficeps  ♀︎, ant. 27.

Aspilota spp. 6:  4 mtd. = 
A. rubripes  ♂︎, ant. 18.
A. tumida  ♂︎, ant. 18.
A. sp.  ♂︎, ant. 23;  with dimple & rough propodeum.
A. mammallata m.  1 very fine ♀︎, ant. 22.

Dacnusa areolaris, laevipectus & longiradialis (the last commonest), none mtd.
D. elegantula  2♀︎♀︎: not mtd.
D. pubescens, small ♀︎, long terebra; ant. 24.
D. confinis Ruthe.  ♀︎, ant. 23.
D. senilis, ant. 32, large ♀︎.

Aphidius sp.  ♂︎: not mtd.
Proctos.  6: 2 mtd. = Cryptoserphus laricis Hal.  small ♀︎.
Chalcids  3 } not mtd.
Cynipid  1 } not mtd.

On return journey broke tooth in pinion of differential of car turning into Kenilworth Park, so car laid up pending repairs until 14th April 1948!  A.W.S.


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16th to 31st October 1946.

Mainly cold, dull, sunless days with rain at week-ends, except that of 27th.  Did not collect anywhere, but saw a Bombus agrorum in front garden at dinner-time on Sunday 27th & took two hymenoptera in back garden, 14 Clareville Rd., Harold's Cross, Dublin, as follows:-

On 26th Oct. while working in garden took a ♀︎ Procto. running on a Mossy Saxifrage which proved to be Exallonyx.
And on 30th Oct. took a ♀︎ Apanteles circumscriptus on a sheet on the clothes line (in sun).


3rd & 4th November, 1946.

A heat-wave arrived suddenly on night of 2nd-3rd (following quite a cold week with "melted snow" showers on 1st & 2nd & a B.B.C. announcement that temperature on Hall 'eve in New York was 84°!).  Many insects must have been out on these days but I was on duty in Museum on 3rd (Sunday!).  During lunch on 3rd watched a Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly sunning itself on front lawn & on 4th at 1.45 a very fresh ♀︎ Bombus agrorum, with all black abdomen, sunning herself on wall of motor house in back garden.