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108.

29th August 1848. 

A very warm, humid, day; with warm SW wind - rather strong at times - & much hot sun.

Drove (with Mr. Green & Daisy) via Celbridge, Clane & Prosperous to Brockagh & spent some time in the bog before & after lunch.  All the usual plants seen, but no trace of Rhychospora [[Rhynchospora]] fusca, which was not seen, though lots of R. alba.  Swept a few insects on cut-away edge of bog & the bog itself on N. side of the Prosperous - Edenderry road before lunch (= 1) & in plantation & swamp on S. side of road at same place after lunch (= 2). 

Bombus lucorum ♂︎♂︎ & B. muscorum common the latter often at flowers of Erica tetralix.

Later collected by Grand Canal, E. of Landenstown, on way home (= 3). 

Insects taken at 1 (Bog N. of road at Brockagh, KD.) (12 noon till 1.15 P.M.)

Cryptinids 1♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎: 2 last mtd. = 
Hemiteles sp. ♀︎ black, ant. 22.
H. sp. ♀︎, red abd., ant. 26.
Zootrephus suspiciosus? ♂︎: not mtd.
Eusterinx sp. (cf. oligomera) ♂︎, ant. 18.
Bracon microcephalus m. (2 minute ♂︎♂︎ - 1 mtd.) 1♀︎:  ♂︎ ant. 20, may not be same species as the ♀︎, ♀︎ ant. 26, red orbits & alutaceous apical band on tergite 3
Sigalphus caudatus ♀︎: not mtd.
Acoelius subfasciatus ♀︎.


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Bog at Brockagh, Co. KD., cont.

Insects taken at 1, cont.

Diospilus capito 2♀︎♀︎: not mtd.
Opius lunulatus, a very nice pair.  ♂︎, ant. 27, with rugose sternauli!  ♀︎, ant. 28.
O. irregularis ♀︎: not mtd.
Dacnusa maculipes ♀︎: not mtd.
D. tesmia Nixon ♂︎ ant. 28; v. small.
Aphidius sp. ♂︎ } none mounted.
Procto 1. } none mounted.
Chalcids. 3 } none mounted.
Cynipids. 2. } none mounted.

Flying ants abundant = M. ruginodis, Formica fusca, and Leptothorax acervorum (swept) ☿


Taken at 2. (2.15-3.15 P.M.)
[30 mtd. from 2 & these labelled 9.2.1953.]

Phaeogenid 2♀︎♀︎ = Oronotus binotatus! - Ant. 29 & 30.
Exephanes occupator ♂︎, ♀︎: not mtd.
Phaeogenic? 2♂︎♂︎: not mtd.
Cryptinids 7: 2 only mounted =
Hemitles ♀︎, minute, ant. 18.
Pezomachus rufulus? small ♀︎, ant. 18.
Pimpla flavicoxis ♂︎: not mtd.
Lissonota bellator ♂︎: not mtd.
Orthocentrus radialis 1♀︎, ant. 3.
Promethes sulcator 1 dark ♂︎, ant. 25.
P. pulchellus ♀︎: not mtd.
Mesoleius 1: not mtd.

Leptothorax acervorum ♀︎.
Sawfly = Pteronidea melanaspis ♂︎.