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348. 21st April 1948. A dull foggy day, with drizzle & the heavy rain in late afternoon & evening. 22nd April (Thursday). After a damp night with thunder about, a dull fine morning, with slight drizzle at times & showers about in afternoon; late afternoon & evening very fine & sunny, but colder as wind went from SE to S. & then SW. Drove in afternoon to Jobstown & walked up bohereen to Tumoling Pool & on to top of morainic mound 1/2 mile SW. of pool. Many Willow Warblers about Jobstown & 2 Swallows seen there on return journey. Besides Tumoling there are several other small tarn-sites filled with rushes W. of the bohereen, which I had not noted before Ranunculus Lenormandi looking very fine & in full flower around edge of Tumoling & also by roadside pool where the bohereen enters the "Commons". Montia fontana & Luzula campestris also seen in flower at 1150 ft., but vegetation otherwise showing little sign of growth. [Horse Chestnut in Harcourt Terrace in full flower on this day & Mr. Maurice Dalton reported a Wood White Butterfly (L. sinapis) in his office in S. Frederick St.] 23rd April 1948. A ♂︎ Apanteles difficilis? emerged from a buff cocoon spun by a larva, ex a Geometrid larva taken 25.8.47 by R.C. Faris at Kells, Co. ME. 349. 25th April 1948. A most perfect day, entirely hot sunny with pleasant easterly breeze. Drove in car (myself, Daisy, George (home for weekend) & Marcus Graham to Louisa Bridge - arriving at 11 AM.; collected about Rye Water till 12.30, then drove in to Deey Lock (13th) W. of Louisa Bridge & walked back to plantation at Collinstown House, in which plantation swept for an hour in afternoon. Lunch at 1PM., left for home at 3.30 & home on tick of 4PM. Very few Swallows seen, also Willow Warblers! First dragonflies: Pyrosoma nymphula plentiful. Rye Water, Co. KD. (= 1) [4 only mtd. from 1 & these labelled in 13.5.1951.] Bombus sylvarum 1 very nice fresh ♀︎ seen by canal. Empria tridens ♀︎ (Graham). Cryptinids 3♂︎♂︎: none mtd. Leptocryptus sp. ♀︎: not mtd. Stenomacrus morio? ♂︎ abt. 24. St. curvicaudata ♀︎, ant. 26. Apanteles 2♂︎♂︎: not mtd. Aspilota ♂︎, ant. 24 = A. cf. excavata m.? sculpture of propodeum & head agree well! D. gilvipes 1♂︎, 1♀︎. D. aphanta 1♂, 1♀︎. D. maculipes & areolaris ♂︎: none mtd. Mesoleius caricis 2♂︎♂︎, not mtd. Ephredrus validus ♂︎, ant. 11. Aphidius ♀︎: not mtd Proctos, not mtd.