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27th May, 49. 
A small ♀︎ Cryptinid ich taken on window of kitchen porch = Phygadeuon sp. ♀︎, ant. 20. 


28th May 49. 

Cold NW wind & very hot sun, heavy thunder storm at 4.15 P.M.  During hot spell of sun in afternoon before shower took a Dacnusa (at Rosa tomentosa bush) & several ichs in back garden 14 Clareville Rd. 
Hover Fly = 
Homocidus subopacus ♂︎, ant. 22.
Clistopyga sauberi  2♂︎♂︎, ant. 25 & 26.
Dacnusa talaris  ♂︎, ant. 33.


29th May 1949. 

Drove in afternoon to Athdown & in spite of cold showers did some sweeping & plenty of insects about.  Very heavy showers at 2, 3 & 3:30 P.M., with strong, cold, wind from SW.;  hot sun in between, before or after. 

Swept in 3 areas as follows.
1 = Wood between roads at Manor Kilbride, on way to Athdown, Co. WI., five minutes before 1st shower. 
2 = Ditch on S. side of road along N. boundary of Kippure Ho., E. of lodge;  & along E. side of glen by stream N. of road at lodge, between showers.
3 = Birch scrub, S. of road (for 100 yards) & W. of stream at lodge, after 3rd shower.


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29.5.49, cont.  Wood, where roads meet & between road just N. of Manor Kilbride, on way to Athdown, Co. WI. = 1

[13 mtd. & these labelled 13.4.53 or previously!]  5 minutes sweeping!

Barichneumon albicinctus?  ♂︎, ant. 32.
Hemiteles? sp.  ♀︎?: not mtd.
Phygadeuon? sp.  ♀︎, ant. 19.
Homocidus obscuripes  ♂︎: not mtd.
Stenomacrus ventralis  1♀︎ not mtd.
St. cubiceps??  ♂︎, ant. 26.
Thersilochid ♀︎, ant. 19 = 
Gen. et sp.? = Helictes cf. pilicornis ♂︎ ant. 29.
Euphorus cf. flavicornis ♂︎, ant. 25.
Aspilota sp.? ♀︎, ant. 19;  prop. "smooth", head small;  dimple only visible in cross light.
Dacnusa thisbe Nixon, ♂︎, ant. 46.
D. bellina ♂︎: not mtd.
D. laevipectus  3♀︎♀︎: not mtd.
Praon abjectum?  ♂︎
Monoctonus caricis  ♀︎: not mtd.
Aphidius spp. 4 = A. avenae ♀︎, ant. 18.
A. renominatus?  3♀︎♀︎, ant. all 17;  all small, yet 17-seg. ant.!!!  tergite 1 rather dark & antennae longer & slenderer than those of 2♀︎♀︎ listed from Glenasmole, DU., on p.216 antea.
Procto. 1 = 
Chalcid 1: not mtd.

All collected at X on sketch map in roadside stream-ditch & off or beneath beech, oak & large crab-apple tree.

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DOWRY
From Brittas & Dublin
To Athdown ->
X
Back gate!
N <- E S W
Brittas River
Gate to Kilbride Ho.
From Tinnode
To Ballyward
Glen Heste
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