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284. 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. 285. 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.