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252. 19th June 1949. Same as last few days; gloriously sunny all day, hazy, & with keen, strong, cool, Easterly wind. Drove to Kippure Lodge, Athdown, Co. WI., arriving about 11.15 AM. - Daisy & I. Left car in shade of trees & with our lunch ascended the Athdown Brook, which flows into the R. Liffey just below Kippure House. Had lunch at 1 P.M. in gorge below a small waterfall, & then pushed on onto the ridge between Seefingan & Kippure - Alt. of ridge about 2100-2200 ft. Or reaching the ridge turned east on to a saddle where some nice pools & then back down a tributary of the Athdown Brook to the waterfall & so back to car, where had tea about 5 P.M. Collected a few insects in gorge below the waterfall before lunch, where small & old trees of Birch, Hazel & Mt. Ash grow; & collected some water Beetles in the pools on the col at about 2100 ft., where also saw Correa, Geri &. The only plants of interest seen during the day were Lychnis flos-cuculi by the waterfall at about 1300 ft (?) & Vaccinium vitis-idaea & Empetrum nigrum on the ridge at 2000 to 2200 ft on both WI. & DU. sides of the county boundary. 253. 19.6.49. cont. Athdown Brook, Co. WI., cont. Collected 2 bags of mosses & hepactics for Miss Thomson on way up - one below the waterfall & the other above this, i.e. from 1200 ft. to 1300 ft. & from 1300 to 1800 ft. approximately. Insects taken by the Athdown Brook, below the waterfall or say 1200 to 1300ft. Approx. 12 noon to 1 P.M. Dryinids 2 = Cryptinids 2♂︎♂︎ = Hemiteles sp. ♂︎, ant. 23. Atractodes sp. ♂︎ ant. 23. Mesoleids 2 - one with profuse pale markings on head, thorax, abdomen - swept off Mt. Ash at Waterfall = M. sp. ♂︎, ant. 31. This is a ♂︎ Phytodictus! AWS. Phytodictus segmentator? ♂︎, ant. 33. Homocidus obscuripes 1♀︎: not mtd. Promethes cognatus & pulchellus 1♂︎ of each: not mtd. Mesochorus sp. ♂︎, ant. 34. Sagaritis ?maculipes Tz. sp. ♀︎; ant. 31, runs to punctata in Schmied. but ? Apanteles fulvipes group 3: not mtd. Opius "cingulatus" 2♂︎♂︎ (first seen 1949!) = xanthogaster miki - not mtd. O. irregularis 2: not mtd. Phaenocarpa ruficeps & conspurcator 1♂︎ each: not mtd. Aspilota cynipids? ♀︎, ant. 19.