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196. 26.4.49, cont. Phoenix Park, DU., cont. Taken at 1 or 2, cont. Aspilota spp. 3♂︎♂︎ 1♀︎ Dacnusa laevipectus, maculipes, aphanta (1♂︎), gilvipes (1♀︎). Chaenusa conjungens? large ♀︎, dark stigma taken by Graham. Monoctonus caricis ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ common Ephedrus plagiator ♂︎ (Graham). Trioxys sp. ♂︎, ant. 30 Aphidius spp. abundant, especially ♂︎♂︎, the following only mounted = A. n. sp.? ♀︎, ant. 14 - stout, no trans cubital, ant. yellow at base pronotum & part pleura & tergite 1 testaceous, &c. A. sp. ♀︎, ant. 16. Proctos. A few: none mtd. Chalcids frequent: one minute, greenish, speciman taken at 2 (by accident found in sucker!) = Bumble Bee: I believe I saw a ☿ B. lucorum at 1 28th April 1949. The two Swifts again seen at 8 AM. over Westfield Road & our back garden & still there at 9.15 AM. Father Kennedy writes me that Major R.F. Ruttledge reports having seen 10 Swifts at L. Ballyvary, near Foxford, Co. Mayo on 20th April & Daisy now tells me she saw 5 or 6 Swifts at Drumdangan, WI., on Sunday, 24th, while Graham & I were collecting insects in the wood! 27th-30th April 1949. Cold, with much sun & some clouds, no rain. On 30th much hot sun bursts & as I was in back garden for most of the day I saw the following insects:- Speckled Wood Butterfly (first seen on Aft. of 29th!); Bombus terrestris. a beautiful fresh ♀︎; B. lucorum ♀︎. B. lapidarius a fresh ♀︎ first seen on Laburnum flowers & then moved to Black Currant flowers B. jonellus a lovely fresh ☿ (worker) on Mediterranean Heath Two Coleoptera = Aphidius matricariae Hal.? ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ (ant. 16-17 & 14 respectively) emerged from Aphides on Senecio vulgaris in garden. 1st May 1949. A fine day, but quite dull, after a slight drizzle in early morning. Left home in car at about 10.30 & drove via Naas to Dunlavin, then on to George's Bridge, R. Slaney; at 3.15 drove on E. to Knockaderry Cross Roads, where left car & walked south for 1 mile & then ascended Spinans Hill, where had aft. tea. Left for home at 5.30 & home at 6.45. Stopped on outward journey to collect amongst birch scrub on site of cut down plantation = Dunstown Wood, 2 miles N. of Harristown bridge over R. Liffey (= 1); then drove on to George's Bridge where had lunch & afterwards collected for over an hour on left bank of Slaney 1/8 mile above bridge in "wuzzy" (= 2).