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279.  

24.8.47, cont.  Rye Water & Royal Canal KD.

13.  1 = Marshy flat on right bank of Rye Water, 50 yards N. of canal aqueduct.
4.  2 = Sunk area on plateau between Louisa Bridge & station 1.
18.  3 = Mr. Mitchell's plantation along canal at Collinstown Ho. = "R. Canal".

Some stung Aphides collected on Ononis repens at Esker, Co. DU., produced ♀︎♀︎ (6) of Aphidius ervi on that evening, and following day!

Insects taken at 1
[13 mounted & these labelled 10.4.1951.]

Cryptinids 2.
Hemiteles sp.  ♂︎: not mtd.
Microcryptus graminicola  ♀︎, ant. 26.

Promethes sulcator  3♀︎♀︎:  not mtd.
P. pulchellus  ♂︎: not mtd.
Homocidus pallipes  ♂︎, ant. 23.
Stenomacrus sp.  ♀︎: not mtd.
Mesochorus sp.  ♀︎: not mtd.
Nepiera concinna?  2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎ mtd., ant. 26.

Opius irregularis  4 (♂︎ & ♀︎)
O. caesus  2 (1 minute ♂︎, 1 larger ♀︎, ant. both 22).
O. exilis?  ♀︎, ant. 27.
O. cf. communis??  ♀︎, ant. 23.


280.

24.8.47, cont.  Rye Water, KD., cont.

Taken at 1, cont.

Pentapleura pumilio  2♀︎♀︎: not mtd.
Dacnusa areolaris group, including longiradialis (♂︎ & ♀︎) & maculipes:  none mtd.
D. aphanta  8 (♂︎ & ♀︎): none mtd.
D. (G.) siniffa  ♂︎(?), ant. 29.
D. (G.) affinis  1♀︎: not mtd.
D. (G.) uliginosa  2♀︎♀︎:  1 mtd. has rather expanded head & 23 seg. ant.
Chaenusa conjungens  13 (♂︎ & ♀︎)
Coelinius diversipes m.  2♂︎♂︎, ant. 40 & 41;  legs mainly red.
Praon abjectum?  1♂︎, 1♀︎: not mtd.
Aphidius spp. 9:  1♂︎ mtd. = A. renominatus Hincks (cirsii Hal.) ant. 19.

Procto.  1 } none mtd.
Chalcids  3 } none mtd.
Cynipid  2 } none mtd.

Hemipteron = Polymerus nigritus Fallin, ♀︎, fide A.M. Maysee 1964.  New to Ireland.


Seen by canal between stations 2 & 3.

Aeschna juncea (1), A. grandis (2), Orthetrum coerulescens by marshy hollow at 2.
Sympetrum striolatum frequent.
Painted Lady Butterfly 1.
Red Admiral 1.
Peacock 1.
Clouded Yellow ♂︎♂︎ 2.
Common Blue  2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎.
Wall Butterfly.
Speckled Wood.
Silver-washed Fritillary 1♀︎ Small Copper.