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52 30.4.50, cont. After return home at 5.45 saw a very fresh ☿ Bombus jonellus on flowers of Mediterranean Heath in back garden. First flower on the Glenade Arabis petraea open on this date (in pot by coal house!); Saxifraga umbrosa; Euphorbia hiberna in front garden out a couple of days. Carex vaginata & C. binervis from Scotland in flower for about a week in back garden. 3rd May 1950. A very fine day with much hot sun & slight N-NW breeze, after two days of sun & very heavy showers of rain, sleet & hail. In forenoon saw a Large White Butterfly (♀︎) in front garden & a Greenveined & a Small White in back garden. In evening saw two Swifts flying high over Westfield Road & our back garden, the first we have seen this year. In afternoon drove to Glenasmole & left car at middle lodge as usual & walked up W. side of upper reservoir to the arches over Slade Brook channel & back through pine & birch plantation W. of this channel. Swept willows on shore of upper lake (Salix cinerea, X caprea, aurita & viminalis), but Hymenoptera extraordinarly scarce. Home at 6.15. 53. 3.5.50, cont. Insects taken in Glenasmole, Co. DU. 3.30-4.30 P.M. 16 mtd. & these labelled 18.11.1960. A.W.S. Empria sp.? ♀︎ in plantation, below upper dam. Thersilochid - as usual frequent around willows ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎. 2♂︎♂︎ kept, ant. 20 & 22 = Plectiscus sp. ♂︎, ant. 22, in pine plantation, W. of channel. Apanteles cf. lineipes ♀︎, off Salix by lake. Euphorus longicornis miki ♂︎, pale antennae, ant. 25. Phaenocarpa galatea Hal. 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎ off Salix by lake, not far beyond (S. of) the boat "dock": ant. 20-23 (♂︎♂︎), ♀︎ 20. Aspilota nigrescens miki ♂︎, ant. 23, off Salix by lake Monoctonus caricis ♂︎, ant. 16. Ephedrus lacertosus ♂︎ in plantation below upper dam; ant. 11. Chalcid 1 in pine plantation: not mtd. Beetles 4. Elaphrus riparius } Cyphon padi } Orthoptatus sulcatus } Ceuthorrhynchus erysimi } } Swept off Salix by lake. All named by Eugene O'Mahony.
