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310.

21st Aug. 49.  

A very hot day, but mainly cloudy & close with southerly breeze - almost none in afternoon - &  thunder to west after 5 P.M.

Left home in car about 10 A.M. (George, Daisy & I) & drove via Portarlington to Woodbrook House, QC., where collected by sweeping in 3 areas;  then drove back to Landenstown on Grand Canal via Rathangan, Kilmeague & Prosperous, where collected in barley & oat-fields.  Left Landenstown at 5.40 & home about 6.30 P.M. with thunderstorms to W. & N.

Collected in following places:-

1 = Cut away bog just E. of N. gate (in ruins) of Woodbrook Ho.
2 = Flat boggy heath, with alder & willow scrub, drains &c. N. of Woodbrook House & E. of Mountmellick Canal & also E. edge of said canal about 1 mile N. of last station & near Portarlington road.  All QC.
3 = Edge of oat & barley fields, S. of plantation 1/4 mile E. of Landenstown House & S. of road & canal, Co. KD.

Brimstone Butterfly (G. Rhamni) seen at 1 at lunch time.


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21.8.49.  Woodbrook Ho. bog, Co. Q.C.

Insects taken at 1.  11.30-1.0 P.M.
[1 labelled 29.10.51]

Cryptinids 3 [No other Icks! seen here!]  2 mtd. = 
Hemiteles cf. gracilis ♂︎, ant. 19.
Phygadeon subrimatus ♀︎, ant. 18: brachypterous!

Bracon osculator v. degenerator ♀︎, but antennae only 21-seg.
Oncophanes lanceolator  2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 21.
Chelonus cf. secutor  2♂︎♂︎ (ant. 25), 2♀︎♀︎ (ant. both 22) = these subsequently named "pedator Dahl. = secutor Marshall", by Marcus Graham, in 1954. - see also p.312 ->; & C. 1.  
Sigalphus caudatus ♀︎: not mtd.
Diospilus capito  small dark ♀︎, ant. 20:  a very minute example & not morosus!!
Opius paganus m.  ♀︎, ant. 20:  a small +/- testaceous ♀︎!
O. exilis  ♀︎, ant. 25.
Phaenocarpa eugenia  1 lovely ♂︎, ant. 50.
Aspilota sp.? ant. 23. ♂︎ with dimple, smooth propodeum, very elongate ant. segs.; narrow tergite 1.
A. cynipidis  ♀︎, ant. 20, red tergite 1.
Dacnusa (P.) discolor  ♀︎, ant. 23;  small.
Aphidius sp.  ♂︎: not mtd.
Proctos  5: none mtd.
Chalcids  6: 1 Mymarid only mtd. = 
Hemerobius  1 =
Dipteron  1 = 
Meligethes?  = 
Staphilinid beetle? off Typha = ♀︎