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18.8.48, cont.  Customs Ho. Docks, Dublin Port, cont.

floor dug by the man along the wall.  In the soil on top of this buttress & next the S. facing wall were many ♀︎♀︎ (all winged) one ♂︎ & a few ☿☿ - presumably the remnant of the colony;  the following mounted:-  ♂︎ (1); ♀︎♀︎ (30, all winged, except one which had lost both right wings!);  & 9 ☿☿.

Later collected for a few minutes with sucker on docken & thistle in near by waste patch known as "the Sally Garden" - there is one big plant of Salix (? viminalis) in the middle of the waste-ground!  Here took the following:-

Bassus annulatus ♀︎, ant. 18. 
Saw here also Bombus terrestris & B. lucorum 1♂︎ each
Homocidus pulcher ♂︎, ant. 22.
H. nigritarsis 7♂︎♂︎ (2 mtd.) ant. 21 & 22.
Pimpla cf. brevicornis group ♂︎, ant. 20.
Procto. Sent to Graham Jan. 53.

On way back went into corn store where E. O'M. on 4th had got several spp. of Hymenoptera, including a long series of Blacus ♀︎♀︎ & here took on the windows Blacus humilis group ♀︎, ant. 17.
Metacoelus mansuetor ♂︎, ant. 25.
Hemiteles  2♀︎♀︎, red abdomen, long terebra, 19-seg. antennae.
Campoplegid ♀︎: not mtd.  1♀︎ also taken by E.O'M. on 4.8.48!
Also taken here by E.O'M on 5th July 1948:- Blacus humilis group 3♀︎♀︎ same sp. as below! 
Hemiteles areator group ♀︎, ant. 25.
H. (?) sp.  ♂︎, ant. 23.
H. (?) sp.  ♀︎, ant 19.
Spathius exarator  ♂︎, ant. 32+ (broken).


93.

11th Aug. 1948.

Took Cynipid flying at Epipactus palustris leaves in tub in garden & a ♀︎ Hemiteles on Motor House window at 2 P.M.  A nice forenoon, but E. X W. jam formed in afternoon to W. of Dublin & heavy rain in places, but not in Dublin itself till 7 P.M.  Left hme in car at 2.30 P.M. & drove via Crooksling to Ballinascorney Gap & up the road to Kilbride camp for half a mile, where turned & left car.  Walked up S. side of overflow channel behind Slievenabawnoge on to ridge & up ridge to summit of Ballymorefin Hill where had afternoon tea, watching the rain fall heavily in a line from Clondalkin to Naas or that direction;  as this jam came slowly towards us in spite of E. wind over ridge we turned back to car & arrived just as heavy rain commenced at 5.20.

Swept unburnt area of heather on ridge just N. of Ballymorefinn "summit" at almost 1,500 ft., where some few bits of Empetrum nigrum seen - nearly all the rest of the ridge as far as covered by us completely burnt earlier in the year.

Many moths seen & caterpillars swept, but few Hymenoptera about:  Bombus jonellus ♀︎, B. lucorum & a very orange specimen (like B. muscorum) seen, as well as the following:-