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138. 23.9.48, cont. Skerries Bog, KD. cont. Taken at 2, cont. Mesochorus sp. ♀︎, ant. 34. Campoplegid 1 = Nepiesta? sp. ♀︎, ant. 23. Porizonid 1♂︎, ant. 25 = Oncophanes minutus small ♀︎, ant. 22. O. lanceolator large ♀︎ ant. 23. Apantsles circumscriptus ♀︎, small - Very small! Rogas circumscriptus complex ♂︎, ant. 41; slender, mainly testaceous body. Meteorus cf. ictericus ♂︎, ant, abnormal! Eubadizon extensor ♂︎: not mtd. Opius longicaudatus m. ♂︎, ant. 31; very nice specimen! Gnamptodon pumilio 7 (♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎): none mtd. Aspilota sp.? ♀︎, ant. 22 near rufifemur & clivosa? A. of. near minutissima? ♂︎, ant. 21, almost black legs, rugose propodeum. A. cf. fuscescens ♂︎, minute, ant. 21, smooth prop., palish legs. Dacnusa (Gyrocampa) affinis ♀︎, ant. 23 & D. (G.) siniffa ♂︎, small, ant. 27, probably swept on edge of marsh by car. Praon volucre ♀︎; ant. 22. Proctos. 14: 6 mtd. = Chalcids 10, minute: none mtd. Cynipid 1: not mtd. Weevil, small, reddish = Codiodes rubicundus Hbst. fide H.W. Daltry. 25.9.48. Apanteles lateralis ♀︎, and another which escaped, bred from piniarea by E.S.A. Bayne from larva taken at 26.9.48. Hemiteles sp. ♀︎ taken in back garden, 14 Clareville Rd., Harold's Cross, DU., running over plant of Sibthorpia europaea in pot. 27.9.48. Nemeritus canescens ♀︎ taken on window in Nat. Museum, Dublin. 139. 27th Sept. 1948. Very mild, dull, humid morning; clouds moving from SW-W, but gentle E. breeze in Clareville Rd. from 8 to 10 AM. Very large flock of Hirundines over Clareville Rd. at 9.30 AM., playing but apparently also moving southward; flying low over house-tops & so far as I cold see all were House Martins. R.C. Faris in town for week-end from Cavan & at 11 AM. drove in his car to Athdown, Upper Liffey, WI., in spite of rising S.W. wind & signs of coming rain: ran into drizzle almost at once which increased as we approached Crooksling & then lightened again, but thick misty rain at Athdown. Stopped above the footstick & walked across river & showed Faris Rubus nessensis (which had quite a lot of fruit on it this year & tasted of various things but not blackberry!), Vaccinium Oxycoccus & Orobanche major. Later drove on to Kippure Ho. & had lunch in car, after 1/2 hours walk up military road (& back) towards Kilbride camp. After lunch as only light rain blowing in the wind spent 1 1/2 hours sweeping birch, Salix, &c. below the road & between road & military road; Stenomacrus ventralis in great abundance & hymenoptera particularly abundant on small oak between the two roads. Home about 4.30 P.M.