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224. 1st June 1949. A fine cool morning with low, steady glass & NW breeze. About 10 AM (S.T.) wind turned east with "jam" & drizzle. In afternoon a thunderstorm formed with heavy rain over S.E. Dublin & only cleared when wind veered to SW. in late afternoon. After tea, ca. 6.40 drove in car to Manor-Kilbride, Co. WI. & swept area where Dacnusa thisbe taken on Sunday 29th May (see sketch map on p.221, antea) for half an hour. Later drove to Ballinascorney Gap where left car & climbed Slieve-na-bawnoge in brilliant sunshine: left there 9.30 P.M. for home. Insects taken in wood in [[triangle]] between roads at Manor-Kilbride, Co. WI. 7.0 till 7.30 P.M. [[[strikethrough]] 39 [[/strikethrough]] [40 mounted & these labelled 20.4.1953. or previously!] Aphelopus 3♂︎♂︎ - two very white! Cryptinids 5♂︎♂︎, including Exolytus sp. ♂︎, ant. 27, Hemiteles sp. ♂︎, ant. 20 & 3♂︎♂︎ of Phygadeuon?, not mtd. Mengersenia exareolata m. ♀︎, ant. 16, same as taken at Ballyhenry on 22.5.49. Promethes cognatus 1♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎: not mtd. 225. 1.6.49, cont. Manor-Kilbride, Co. WI., cont. Stenomacrus [(Neurateles) 1♂︎: not seen when labelling 1953.] St. ventralis 6♀︎♀︎, & 5 other specimens = St. cubiceps 4♂︎♂︎ (ant. 26(1) & 27(3): 1♀︎ (ant. 25). Plectiscid ♂︎, pale coloured = Aperileptus obliquus Th. ♂︎, ant. 22. Rogas circumscriptus ♂︎, ant. 40. Euphorus 4 = E. fulvipes 1♂︎, 1♀︎(?), ant. both 16. E. cf. pallipes? 2♂︎♂︎, ant. 24 & 26. Biosteres impressus ♂︎, ant. 43. Opius stenops m. ♂︎, ant. 24. Phaenocarpa ruficeps 1 very large ♂︎, ant. 29. Alloea contracta ♂︎, ant. 25 Aspilota vernalis m. ♀︎, ant. 25, no doubt swept off beech & 5 other specimens = A. atra m. ♀︎, ant. 23. A. cf. clivosa ♀︎, ant. 21, rugose propodeum & dimple! A. (Synaldis) cf. filicornis 1♂︎, ant. 20, 1♀︎, ant. 17. A. sp. ♀︎, ant 19; body black, no dimple, propodeum smooth with central rugose stripe as in fuscescens.