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126. 19th Sept. 1948. After a fine day & promise of fine weekend, a dull morning. Started out in car, George, Daisy & I, at 10.30 A.M. & ran straight into wet mist & drizzle before reaching Naas road & very wet, with wet roads, by the time we reached Rathcoole; wind strong SW-W. Took the Kilteel-Rathmore road & stopped for half an hour to collect under shelter of trees on roadside at Johnstown House, Co. DU. Then drove on to Glending, 2 miles NW. of Blessington where arrived at 12 noon. Left car at S. end of the "glen" & walked up lane which leads SW. over hill to Newtown; collected blackberries & crab apples in lane & returned to car for lunch at 1 P.M. During this period just a light wet mist or faint drizzle, but as soon as lunch over & I tried collecting in wood on Co. WI. side of the KD-WI boundary heavy wet drizzle came from S. & wet everything. Nevertheless swept on & under several beech trees for half an hour & then drove home via Blessington & Brittas. Roads flooded at Blessington but from Brittas to Dublin drier & drier & quite dry from Tallaght, though windscreen of car kept 127. 19.9.48, cont. wet by mist, but no real rain had fallen in Dublin & none fell during afternoon. Red spiders very active, much to our surprise, & many bites by 4 P.M.!!! Collected in two areas as follows:- 1 = roadside at Johnston House, about 2 miles S. of Rathcoole on Kilteel-Rathmere road. 11-11.30 AM. 2 = under beech & amongst young ash in wood on east side of Glending, at S. end of glen, Co. WI. 1.15 to 1.45 P.M. Johnstown, S. of Rathcoole Co DU. [32 mtd. & these labelled 26.2.1953.] Insects taken at 1. Oiorhinus pallipalpis 1♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. 26 & 23. Cryptinids 18, including Pezomachus, Leptocryptus & Stilpnus: 4 mtd. = Pezomachus sp. ♂︎ wingless ant. 21 P. sp. ♂︎, winged, ant. 23. Hemiteles sp. ♂︎, ant. 23. H. sp. ♀︎, ant. 22. Pimple turionellae group ♂︎, ant. 51, tricoloured hind tibiae = P. quadridentata ♂︎, ant. 25. Orthocentrus protuberans ♀︎; ant. 31. Stenomacrus ventralis 1♂︎, 1♀︎, not mtd. Polyblastus sp. ♂︎ & ♀︎, ant. 27 (♂︎) & 28 (♀︎), black femora, red abd.; no areolet.