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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.