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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 ♀︎. 109. 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 ♂︎.