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58.
14th July 1948.
A fine, chilly, dull day, after several dull days with chilly NW. wind & some drizzle.
In afternoon drove to Brittas & then home by Ballinscorney Gap: stopped 1 mile E. of Brittas to look up Viola lutea in preparation for visit from Desmond Meikle on following Tuesday, 20th & found it in plenty on moraine N. of the road & mill race to the Brittas Ponds.
Also stopped at plantation (mainly Scots Pine) on roadside above Balinascorney House & swept under trees for about 40 minutes: grass very wet in open glades & so sweeping rather difficult: nevertheless small Hymenptera very abundant & a sucker soon filled. The following insects taken here:- [65 mtd. & these labelled Dec. 1952.]
Plantation at Ballinascorney House, Co. DU.
Alt. just 1,000 feet.
Pamphilius vafer swept off old birch in open glade in centre of plantation
Pachynematus obductus ♀︎
Epitomus pygmaeus 2: not mtd.
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14.7.48, cont. Ballinascorney, Co. DU., cont.
Vol. 1 ♂︎ =
Cryptinids 18 Mostly Hemiteles, Pezomachus or Phygadeuon. 4 only mtd. =
Pezomachus sp. ♂︎, ant. 23.
Pez. sp. ♂︎, ant. 19.
Pez. sp. ♀︎, ant. 19
Phygadeuonid? ♂︎, white marked orbits, ant. 27 =
Lissonota bellator 1 highly coloured ♂︎ such as one usually find in the hills at this season: ant. 40.
Stenomacrus laricis 2♀︎♀︎ {not mtd.
St. merula ♂︎, ant. 27, with spiral abdominal segments.
Tryphon signatus 1♀︎: not mtd.
Homocidus biguttatus ♂︎, ant. 24.
Cteniscus sp. ♂︎, ant. 28.
Polyblastus? sp. 1♀︎, ant. 30; black femora.
Mesochorus sp. 1♂︎ small, ant. 22.
M. sp. 1♀︎ large, ant. 39.
Sagaritis annulata ♀︎, var. maculata (red hind femora, black at base: ant. 31.
Bracon obscurator? 1 tiny ♂︎; ant. 19, legs ? all dark.
Apanteles spp. very abundant, mostly fulvipes group.
A. cf fraternus 2♀︎♀︎ mounted.
Sigalphus pallipes ♀︎, ant. 22.
Euphorus cf pallipes group, ♂︎, ant. 25, mesonotum almost smooth & unpunctured.
Blacus longipennis 6♀︎♀︎, ant. all 17.
