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315. 14th October 1947 (Tuesday). After a beautiful day on Monday & beautiful morning till 2 P.M.; then cold, windy, & sunless, with occasional drizzle in hills & a little where we were. In afternoon rode to Old Bawn Bridge (over Dodder) & up road towards Ballymaice; stopped by ruins of old "castle" or house near Marlfield & swept more sheltered parts of grazing fields for about an hour 3.30 till 4.30 P.M., where small hymenoptera very numerous in spite of cold & dull conditions & late season. Here swept the following:- [38 mtd. & these labelled 31.10.47!] Fields near Marlfield, Old Bawn, Co. DU. Dicaelotus pumilus? ♀︎: not mtd. Gen. et sp.? ♂︎, ant. 28: Mesoleid?: same as ♂︎ taken at Carne, WM., on 18.6.1936! [[strikethrough]] Perilissus 1 [[/strikethrough]] No! Cryptinids 9, including 1♀︎ Pezomachus rufulus. Atractodes 1♂︎(?), black, ant. 21. Promethes sulcator ♀︎: not mtd. Homocidus pallipes? ♀︎, & H. nigritarsis ♂︎: neither mtd. Stenomacrus 3 = St. curvicaudatus ♂︎, ant. 26. St. vafer? ♀︎, ant. 21. St. cf. palustris? ♀︎, ant. 22. 316. 14.10.47, cont. Marlfield, Co. DU., cont. Apanteles spp. 10, including 3 which are mounted as follows:- A. lateralis 1♀︎, A. circumscriptus? 1♀︎ & A. pallipes? 1♀︎. Meteorus leviventris 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 25 & 27 (usually 26!). M. fragilis ♂︎, ant. 33. M. filator ♀︎, ant. only 21. Diospilus oleraceus? 2 large ♂︎♂︎, ant. 25 & 26. Opius irregularis & O. caesus 1 small ♀︎ of each: not mtd. Pentapleura angustula 5 (♂︎ & ♀︎) very small: not mtd. Alloea contracta 1♂︎, 1♀︎: not mtd. Phaenocarpa picinervis 1♂︎, 1♀︎: not mtd. Ph. conspurcator 3♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎, all small: not mtd. Ph. livida 1♂︎, ant. 29. Aspilota 12 = A. (Synaldis) parvicornis? a minute ♂︎, ant. 18. A. (S.) levis m. 1 nice little ♀︎, ant. 17, no dimple. A. dentifemur 1 large ♀︎, ant. 20. A. truncata m. 1 small ♀︎, ant. 16. A. nigrescens 2♂︎♂︎, ant. 19 & 22. A. rubripes 2 small ♂︎♂︎, ant. 17 & 18; 1♀︎, ant. 16. A. surcularia-immitator ♀︎, ant. 15. A. semirugosa m. 1♀︎, ant. 19, prop. rather smooth. Dacnusa areolaris, maculipes, confinis ♀︎, lestes √ ♂︎, ant. 23, longiradialis, gilvipes 3♂︎♂︎, aphanta 2♂︎♂︎. Only the ♂︎ lestes mtd.! Monoctonus caricis ♂︎♂︎ frequent; one mtd., ant. 16. Praon abjectum & volucre 1 each. Trioxys letifer? 1♀︎, ant. 11; also 1♂︎, cf. roboris, ant. 13. Ephedrus validus 1: not mtd.