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116. 1.9.48, cont. Powerscourt DPR., WI., cont. Taken at 2. [27 mtd. from 2 & these labelled 14.2.1953.] Pezomachus ♂︎; wingless, ant. 24. Hemiteles apertus ♂︎: not mtd. Lissonota cf. palpalis? ♂︎, ant. 36; head strongly yellow marked Orthocentrus radialis? 1♂︎, ant. 31. O. cf. asper? 2♂︎♂︎, ant. 24 & 25. Stenomacrus clavicornis m. ♀︎, ant. 17 clavate! Porizonid ♂︎, ant. 36 = Diaparsis nutritor! Campoplegids 3♀︎♀︎, ant. 23, 25 & 25 = Angitia subbuccata Th.? Mesochorus sp. ♂︎, ant. 42. Phaenocarpa ruficeps ♂︎: not mtd. Aspilota spp. 6 = A. dentifemur ♀︎, ant. 20; very nice specimen. A. sp. near rufifemur? ♀︎, ant. bitten! A. sp. (? near cynipidis) ♀︎, long, slender, 21-seg. ant. A. cf. fuscescens ♂︎, ant. 23. A. (Synaldis) sp. red petiole, &c. 2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 17. In left wing of one ♀︎ there is a trace of the 1st intercubital vein at top! See similar freak listed on p.119 -> Dacnusa uma Nixon ♀︎, ant. 36. D. areolaris group 1♂︎, 1♀︎: not mtd. Aphidius sp. ♂︎, ant. 17. Monoctonus nervosus ♂︎, ant. 18. Proctos. 8: 5 mounted = Chalcids, Cynipids (8-1-2) Winged Aphide with very black stigma in forewing! = 117. 5th Sept. 1948 (Sunday). A spoiled day, after a clear cold night (almost frost!): dull in morning & absolutely windless in Dublin with gently falling glass. Left home in car at 10.30 & ran into fine drizzle immediately but drove on across the Greenhills to Naas road & so to Rathcoole, where blowing almost a gale from S-SW, though clouds NW. & gentle easterly draught from Kimmage to near Rathcoole. As whole plain & hills covered by misty rain turned round & came back by Saggart, Fortunestown & Tallaght, where gale from SE. encountered, but still windless on reaching home. After lunch wind from NW. cleared everything so went out again in car at 2 P.M. & drove via Old Bawn to road above Jobstown (Marlfield!) where left car & walked west & then south up disused road on east side of valley [[strikethrough]] which was down to the Embankment & Saggart. [[/strikethrough]] After walk tried sweeping sides of road under hedge & edges of field below road & took many small hymenoptera in spite of wet grass & chilly wind. Returned home at 5 P.M. after which sky nearly all blue for rest of evening. The following insects swept on roadside or round grazing field below road:- [72 mtd. & these labelled 17.2. 1953.]