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4.)

23rd Sept. 1949. 

A very beautiful day;  nearly all sunny after 10 AM following some days of east wind & much rain with SE. wind on 22nd - the first really wet day for some time. 

In afternoon drove to Deey Lock on Royal Canal, W. of Louisa Bridge, Co. KD., & collected by sweeping in two fields between canal and Maynooth road as often before and as follows:-

1 = W.& S. sides of 3rd field W. of Louisa Bridge;  nearly all insects taken along hedge on W. side of field, in first year hay this season.
2 = amongst turnips & beet, & along S. side of 2nd field W. of Louisa Bridge.

Saw many Common Blue butterflies along the path of canal; Aeschna grandis (1) and Bombus sylvarum (1♂︎).

Insects taken at 1. 
[31 mtd. from 1 & these labelled 26.11.49.]

Epitomus pygmaeus  ♂︎, ant. 20.
Cryptinids 9: 1 mtd = Pezomachus sp.  ♀︎ ant. 18.
Stenomacrus sp.  ♂︎: not mtd
Mesochorus sp.  3 small ♂︎♂︎: 2 mtd. ant. 24 & 25.
Leptopygus harpurus?  ♂︎, not mtd.


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23.9.49, cont.  Royal Canal, KD., cont.

Taken at 1, cont.

Sigalphus caudatus  2♀︎♀︎ & S. floricola  1♀︎;  also 3 ♂︎♂︎ (? which species!)
Perilitus 9 (♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎) = 4 spp.? as follows:-
P. caudatus Thoms.  1♀︎, ant. 25.
P. sp.  smooth face, 1♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. both 19-seg.  
P. sp. headless ♂︎, ant. missing.
P. sp. rough face, 2♂︎♂︎, 3♀︎♀︎, ant. ♂︎♂︎ (24 & 24), ♀︎♀︎ (20, 21 & 22).
Meteorus abdominatus?  ♂︎, dark form?  Ant. bitten off at 29th seg.
Blacus ruficornis  ♂︎: not mtd.
Opius spp. 3 = O. tacitus?  ♀︎, ant. 26.
O. semiaciculatus m.  ♀︎, ant. 22.
O. levis var.?  ♂︎, ant. 23.
Pentapleura angustula  ♂︎ - not mtd.
Phaenocarpa ruficeps & picinervis  1♂︎ each, not mtd.
Phaenocarpa livida  2♂︎♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎: not mtd.
Alysia tipula √  ♂︎, ant. 42.
Aspilota spp. 8 = A. minutissima  3♀︎♀︎, ant. all 16.
A. nigrescens  ♂︎, ant. 20.
A. rubripes  1 minute ♀︎, ant. 14.
A. (Synaldis) cf. concolor  ♂︎, ant. 22.
A. (Synaldis) sp.  1♂︎, 1♀︎, ant. 22 & 17;  tergite 1 of ♀︎ reddish.
Dacnusa areolaris, maculipes, laevipectus & pubescens  1 of each only: none mtd.
D. elegantula  2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎: not mtd.
D. senilis  3 - 2♂︎♂︎ (ant. 34 & 37), 1♀︎ (ant. 28).
D. acco Nix.  ♂︎ (= ebenina m.) ant. 29.
D. (G.) affinis  1♀︎: not mtd.
Aphidius sp.  2♂︎♂︎: not mtd.
Proctos 23, including very large ♂︎ Proctotrupes gravidator. This alone mounted!
Chalcids  4 } None mtd.
Cynipids  2 } None mtd.

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