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50.) 23rd April 1950. A poor, dull, cold day, with strong W. cold wind, almost drizzling. In afternoon drove to Glending, via Rathcoole & Rathmore, with Marcus Graham & J.P. Brunker, & collected by beating for an hour conifers on Co. Wicklow side of boundary where the birch & ash saplings are now all cleared away for fear they might kill out the blessed conifers. Beaten from Conifers (Spruce) in Glending, Co. WI. Phygadeuon sp. 1♂︎, 1♀︎. Hemiteles cf gracilis ♀︎. H. sp. 2♀︎♀︎, rather bigger than last. Pimpla "examinator" Auctt. small ♀︎. Orthocentrus radialis ♀︎♀︎ in great abundance. Stenomacrus ventralis 2♀︎♀︎, very sort & fresh looking. Plectiscus sp. 2♂︎♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎: 1♂︎ 1♀︎ kept. Procto = Cryptoserphus laricis ♂︎. Microgaster globatus group ♀︎. 24th 28th April. Cold with frosty nights & snow shower, but milder, with drizzle on 28th when I drove J.P. Brunker to R. Liffey, near Osberstowntown Co. KD. to see Salix nigricans, of which several ♀︎♀︎ seemed 100 per cent. with glabrous capsules. Later went over the Liffey aquaduct 51.) & along Grand Canal to Landenston. Saw one Green Veined White (? sex) freshly hatched & sitting on rush stem. Heavy rain on night of 28th-29th & till midday on 29th, then beautifully warm & sunny till past tea time. Many plants in garden came out during the week & in spite of cold nights including the 37+ year old Orchis mascula from near Torr Head, Co. AN. Arctostaphylos uva-ursi from Skerry[[?]] & Agnews Hill, Andromeda, & many of the Mossy Saxifrages, &c. 29th April. Very warm, wet in forenoon, all sunny & very hot in afternoon. Rain at night. 30th April 1950. After a drizzle at dawn & off & on in morning, fine in Dublin, but elsewhere with showers, drizzle & drip. In afternoon drove through Naas to Dunswood where tried to collect in Birch-Willow scrub as on site of wood, but rain spoiled everything. Then drove to Blessington via Harristown & Ballymore Eustace & so home at 5.45 P.M. At Dunstown Wood, Co. KD. took:- [4 mtd. & these labelled 3.5.1950!] Phygadeuon sp. red ♂︎ (Graham) Sagaritis sp. ♂︎, ant. 30. Dacnusa cf. mamertes Nixon ♂︎, black lets, ant. 26. Ephedrus brevis ♂︎, ant. 10/11 Chalcid. Torymas? green ♀︎. On new shoot of birch found dried skin of a caterpillar killed by a Rogas from which em. a R. nigriceps ♀︎ while we were in Dorset, i.e. between 16 May & 7th June.