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13.7.47, cont.  Gollierstown, Co. DU., cont.

Taken at 3. 
[5 mounted from 3 & these labelled on 17.3.1951!]

Cryptinids 2:  not mtd.
Meloboris sp.  ♀︎, red coxae:  not mtd.
Canidia sp.  ♀︎, kept;  ant. 19.
Bracon fuscicoxis  2♂︎♂︎:  not mtd.
Opius exilis?  ♀︎ kept;  ant. 24.
Pentapleura pumilio  3: not mtd.
Dacnusa areolaris group, 2 small ♂︎, 1 mounted;  ant. 20.
Proctos.  3 } none mtd.
Chalcids  2 } none mtd.
Cynipid  1 } none mtd.


18 July 1947.  
Taken on window in Motor House, 14 Clareville Rd.

Clistopyga sanberi  1♀︎, ant. 24 & a large Chalcid (cf. Torymus) ♀︎ green, with spine beneath hind femora = Diomorus armatus Boh.  fide MWR de V.G. 1951.


19th July 1947.
Taken in house at 10 P.M. running on newspaper containing dried plants brought from Scotland (Clova district) but probably a local insect from 14 Clareville Rd.

Coelinius parvipennis?  ♀︎, ant. 27;  head cubical!


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19.7.47, cont.

On this day a fresh ♀︎ Bombus lucorum!!! came into N. window of my room in Museum, from Leinster Lawn, as has happened about this time nearly every year since I can remember or became interested.  I regret that I have not always recorded the date in my diaries!


22nd July 1947.

Spent part of a fine sunny afternoon in back garden & for first time this summer saw Crabro varius (♂︎♂︎ frequent):  usually this species comes out towards end of May or earlier & is over by end of July, but not seen before going to Scotland on 28th May & none seen since return on 2nd July & so I had concluded (almost) that the severe winter had so reduced their numbers that if any had appeared it must have been during my absence, but the ♂︎♂︎ seen today suggest merely a belated appearance though possibly a second emergence.

During the previous week I have seen several ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ of Megachile centuncularis & willoughbiella in the back garden & on 21st a ♀︎ of former on flowers of Geranium pratense in front garden - 14 Clareville Rd.


28th July 1947.
A minute, fat, almost wingless Chalcid found in garden 14 Clareville Road on plants recently brought from Scotland.