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9.5.48, cont. (2) Landenstown, Co. KD. 

[20 insects mounted & these labelled on 2.9.1951.]

Sawflies. Dolerus bimaculatus, very dark ♂︎, by road W. of plantation.
Pontania 3.
Blennocampa tenuicornis ♀︎.

Cryptinids 9.  Including Hemeteles cf. gracilis 4 small ♂︎♂︎ 1♂︎ only mtd. = Leptocryptus sp. ♂︎, ant. 25.

Pimpla alternans var. kolthoffi 2♂︎♂︎ 
{the smaller with decidedly clavate 24-seg. antennae & shorter apical segments;  the larger with only 22-seg. antennae, more filiform & with longer ante-apical segments.}

Exochus of. pictus 1♀︎, small & dark ant. 29.
Homocidus pulcher & obscuripes 1♂︎ each: not mtd.
Zootrephus suspiciosus?  ♂︎, ant. 21; red-banded abdomen.

Campoplegids 2 (1♂︎, 1♀︎): none mtd.

Bracon cf. hispiterga  ♀︎, large, ant. 28, otherwise agrees well!
Microplitis xanthopus  ♀︎. 
Apanteles cf callidus  ♂︎.
Aphaereta major  ♂︎, ant. 26. 
Aspilota (Synaldis) parvicorsis  ♂︎.
Dacnusa laevipectus, 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎:  1♂︎, 1♀︎ mtd. ant. 24 & 21 respect. 
D. aphanta 1, not mtd. 
D. affinis  ♂︎ not mtd. 
D. siniffa  ♂︎ not mtd.
D. (G) uliginosa √ 1♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. 27 & 24. 
D. maculipes  ♂︎, ant. 22.
Monoctonus caricis 1: not mtd.
Aphidius spp.  ♂︎, not mtd.

2 Beetles, 1 small, red head & red thorax (probably beaten off beech!) = Daene humeralis F. (= bipustulata Thunb.) fide E. O'Mahony & new to the Irish List.  Also 1 ....


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12th May 1948. 

A very fine day, nearly all sunny, after a chilly wet day; wind light, southerly. 

Co. DU. 
[13 mounted & these labelled 6.10.1951.]

In afternoon drove with Marcus Graham to Ballymackaily [[Ballymakaily]] Bridge & walked up Grand Canal to Gollierstown Bridge.  Collected by sweeping edge of canal on way;  1st & 2nd quarry SW of Gollierstown Bridge;  & that NW. of bridge;  & small Glyceria-filled pond N. of wall near last.  3 till 4.30 PM.

Bombus derhamellus, lucorum, lapidarius & agrorum seen.
Cryptinids 6♂︎♂︎ (3 Hemiteles & 3 Atractodes!): 1 only mounted = Hemiteles sp. ♂︎, ant. 19, blackish legs.
Stenomacrus curvicaudatus ♀︎, ant. 25.
Lathroplex infernalis  2♀︎♀︎ taken by M.W.R. de V. Graham.
Bracon hispiterga  2♂︎♂︎ ant. 32-33. 
Sigalphus cf. caudatus  ♂︎, ant. 21, tergite 3 smooth.
Perilitus secalis (Hal.) Th.  ♀︎ ant 22. 
Blacus ruficornis  ♀︎: not mtd.
Opuis pendulus ♂︎, ant. 19. 
Alloea contracta  ♂︎: not mtd.
Pentaphleura pumilio  ♂︎ & ♀︎: not mtd.
Aspilota nigrescens  ♂︎, not mtd. 
A. dentifemur  ♀︎ ant. 19.} 
A. (S.) parvicornis  ♂︎, not mtd.
Dacnusa areolaris?  2♂︎♂︎. 
Gyrocampa uliginosa √  5♂︎♂︎;  1♀︎; 1♂︎, 1♀︎ mounted, ant. 27 & 25.
Gyrocampa striola m.  ♀︎, ant. 21, very nice specimen!
Chorebidea lymphatus  large ♂︎, ant. 26. 
Chaenusa conjungens 1♂︎, 1♀︎: not mtd.
Monoctonus caricis  ♂︎ not mtd. 
Aphidius spp. 7: none mtd.
Proctos. 3: none mtd. 
Beetle (jumper) =

[First Crabro varius ♂︎♂︎ seen in garden, 14 Claresville Rd., Dublin at 1 P.M.]