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235. 30th June 1947. Left Milton of Clova by car at 6:30 A.M. (D.S. time!) & caught 7:20 train at Kirriemuir, changed at Forfar, Perth, Carlisle & Preston & arrived at Liverpool 6:00 P.M. Went on board the S.S. Louth at 8:15 (B. & I. Line!) & reached North Wall, Dublin at 7:30 on the 1sh July. Home for breakfast 8:30 A.M. END OF SCOTTISH HOLIDAY 1947. For information about plants of Glen Clova areas, write to Miss Ursula K. Duncan, Parkhill, Arbroath, Angus. 6th July 1947 A small ♀︎ Perilissus pallidus taken by E. O'Mahony on window of the Clontarf Boat Club, Dublin: antennae 35. 7th July 1947 A large ♀︎ Mesoleius taken by me in M.S.D. Westropp's back garden, 10 St. James Terrace, Clonskeagh, Dublin: ant. 35. 236. The first really fine summer day since our return from Scotland. Very hot sun almost all day, strong warm W.-SW. wind. Rode, alone, to Gollierstown, Grand Canal, Co. Dublin & collected by sweeping in three areas as follows, but sun too hot & wind too strong for small insects. 1 = Edge of canal & first two [[strikethrough]] three [[/strikethrough]] quarry holes S. of canal & W. of Gollierstown Bridge. 2 = Edge of third quarry hole, W. of station 1 & W. of fence 3 = Edge of old quarry hole on N. side of canal & opposite station 1. Gollierstown, Co. DU. Insects taken at 1. [18 mounted from 1 & these labelled 15.3.51.] Cryptinids 14, including Atractodes tenebricosus: not mtd. Pezomachus cf. microrum Först. ♀︎, ant. 18; very short terebra, &c. Promethes dorsalis 3: not mtd. Zootrephus suspiciosus? 1: not mtd. Meloboris sp. 2♂︎♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎, red coxae: none mtd.