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32 16th June 1948. After several fine days & a beautiful forenoon, rain started at 3.30 just as we reached Lucan demesne & continued till late evening; this together with a drop in temperature made collecting hopeless. Nevertheless I & Marcus Graham collected what we could be sweeping (at first) beneath some of the larger trees & (later) with suckers from the underside of leaves of lime (chiefly), beech, &c. Many specimens of the Stratiomyid fly Beris chalybeata seen glued to underside of leaves by the fungus. Lucal demesne, Co. DU. [8 mounted & these labelled on 20.11.1951.] Stilpnus gagates? ♂︎: not mtd. Orthocentrus sp. ♂︎, ant. 27 cf. repentinus? Adelognathus fasciatus Thoms. ♀︎, ant. 14, under leaf of beech. A.W.S. 20.11.1951. Meteorus vexator? ♀︎, very small, ant. 21. Opius cf. tacitus Hal. ♂︎, ant. 27. Phaenocarpa ruficeps ♂︎; not mtd. Aspilota fuscescens? ♀︎, ant. 18. [A. maculipes ♀︎ taken by Graham.] Dacnusa cyclops, pubescens, areolaris 1♀︎ each, none mounted! 33. 16.6.1948, cont. Lucan, DU., cont. Aphidius spp. none mtd. Monoctonus caricis? 1 dark ♂︎, ant. 16. Chalcids & Cynipids abundant - none mtd.! No Proctos taken! Dipteron 1 = Hemipteron 1 = 20th June 1948. A fine day, with gentle NW. breeze, but entirely dull & heavy rain following at night; many insects out & about. Drove (alone) with Marcus Graham to Kippure House gate, Upper Liffey Valley, Co. WI., & collected between road and R. Liffey just W. of tributary stream from 11.30 AM. till 4 P.M.; then came back to Athdown & collected for an hour (after tea!) on slope from the dun to footstick & noted a third patch of Rubus nessensis on left side of path down field from road to footstick. Swept in two areas at Kippure Ho. & one at Athdown, as follows:-