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10th July 1949. 

Left home in car about 10.30 AM. (Marcus Graham being with us!) & drove via Kings River to Wicklow Gap;  had lunch on N. Shore of Lough Nahanagan & subsequently scrambled round W. & part of south shore & then up S.W. slope & back to car by summit W. of Lough.  Intensely humid & hot, but, thanks be, very little sun.  Small hymenoptera quite abundant - especially in birch scrub below cliffs on S. side of lake.  Collected by sweeping in boggy-rushy areas between gap & lake & around lake, but as it was so hot I left this mostly to Graham, whose sucker was unfortunately broken by accident & nearly all contents allowed to escape.  My sucker contained the insects below!  Saxifraga stellaris, Solidago, Salix cinerea & S. aurita, Drosera rotundifolia, & Pinguicula vulgaris were the most interesting plants noted.  

Small Tortoiseshell Butterflies frequently seen & one seen to fly into dark hollows on cliffs. S. of lake;  one Red Admiral seen by Graham as it flew beside car on return journey down King's River valley & one ♀︎ Agrion virgo seen by Graham on S. side of lake.


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10.7.49 cont.   Lough Nahanagan, Co. WI., cont.

Insects seen or taken by A.W.S. around the lake, alt. 1,300-1400 ft. 
[1 labelled 25.10.1951: 33 labelled 1/9/1960.]

Dryinid  ♂︎.
Bracon fulvipes 2♀︎♀︎, 1 mtd. ant. 36.  
B. variator ♀︎, ant. 27.
B. cf. coriaceus miki  2♀︎♀︎, var. with darkened hind femora: ant. 29 & only 25, the latter is much smaller & may well be a var. of fraudator N.  A.W.S. 1.9.1960.
B. obscurator ♂︎ & ♀︎, very small, ant. 19(♂︎) & 18(♀︎). 
Apanteles circumscriptus?  2♂︎♂︎: none mtd.
Microplitis xanthopus, a very fine ♂︎ with dark wings, apparently this species which I normally associate with salt-marshes e.g. N. Bull, Dublin!
Sigalphus pallipes?  1♂︎,  1♀︎, very small: ant. 23(♂︎)& 22(♀︎).
Ascogaster instabilis  1, ant. 33.
Macrocentrus fulvicornis, m.  ♀︎, ant. 43. 
Diospilus capita  ♀︎, very small, ant. 21.
Pentapleura pumilio, small ♀︎, very dark legs: not mtd.
Dacnusa areolaris group 6: none mtd.
Coelinius cf. parvipennis?  ♂︎ in rushy bog NW. of lake; ant. 35.
Ephedrus plagiator  ♀︎: not mtd. 
Trioxys angelicae  2♀︎♀︎ ant. 11.
Praon abjectem & volucre  1♀︎ each: not mtd.
Aphidius spp. abundant:  7 mtd, as follows:- 
A. renominatus (= cirsii Hal.)  1♀︎, ant. 17;  also a smaller ♀︎, ant. 16, doubtfully same species.
A. cf. dauci, 5♂︎♂︎ narrow stigma, gently curved, long, radius, pale tergite 1, & very dark legs, ant. 16, 16, 16/17, 17 & 18.
Ichneumonidae, &c. see next p.