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238. 12.6.1949, cont. Lug., Co. WI., cont. Insects swept by me in marsh just above & around the tarn in N. Prison, at ca. 2,200 ft. alt. [10 mounted & these labelled 30.12.53.] Dolerus aeneus ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ common; one of the ♂︎ spent some time sucking melted milk-chocolate on Keith Lamb's finger! Hemiteles sp. ♀︎, ant. 21. Homocidus obscuripes ♀︎, ant. 20. Stenomacrus curvicaudatus 2♀︎♀︎; ant. both 26. Dacnusa areolaris common, ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎: not mtd. D. tesmia Nixon ♀︎, ant. 30. D. (Gyrocampa) affinis ♀︎, ant. 22. Monoctonus "nervosus" ♀︎, ant. 16. Aphidius spp. abundant, 2♀︎♀︎ only mounted = = A. sp.? 2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 17, propodeum smooth with vertical keel & transverse ridge near apex: might be pascuorum Marsh; sonchi Hal. or renominatus Hincks, but does not agree with any: therefore possibly a n. sp.! Donacia sp. common: none kept. Dipteron = Tephritis pulchra? Carabus granulatus & catenulatus seen. 239. 14th June 1949. A fine cmorning, turning suddenly cold as wind went from NW. to E. about 2 P.M., with local rain. Left home in car (Daisy & I) about 3.30 & drove to Phoenix Park to deliver some MSS. to Col. Niall MacNeill at Ordnance Survey, where no rain & extraordinarily hot, damp & stuffy; then drove on through Lucan & Leixlip to Deey Lock on Royal Canal 3/4 mile beyond the Rye Water & Louisa Bridge; left car & spent a couple of hours sweeping N. bank of canal & tow path (= 1) & inside wall of Mr. Mitchell's plantation along canal (Collinstown Ho.!) (= 2); & off trees (beech, Horse Chestnut, sycamore, privet, oak) inside same plantation & in hedge W. of same (= 3). Royal Canal, Co. KD., just W. of Collinstown Ho.! = 1. [26 mounted from 1 & these labelled Dec. 1953.] Insects taken here =:- Sawflies 4 = Dolerus palustris ♀︎ on edge of canal, where much Equisetum limosum & E. variegatum var. Pontania sp. near Salix purpurea which much galled, as usual. Cryptinids 6, but only Leptocryptus sp. ♀︎, ant. 22, mounted. Promethes sulcator & laticarpus 1♂︎, & 1♀︎, respectively: not mtd. Zootrephus suspiciosus ♂︎: not mtd. Campoplegid 1♀︎ = Biolysia marginella Th. ♀︎, ant. 25.