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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.]