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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.


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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.