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December 1950. Except for one or two mild days just after Christmas mainly cold with frosty nights & snow on hills, but-latter seldom lay in Dublin. No wasps seen after 22 Nov.

Taken by R.C. Faris during August 1950 at Ballyteige Burrows, Co WX. & other localities in same county.

Amblyteles (Ctenichneumon) panzeri Wessx. 2  from {Ballyteige, 6.8.50 
{& Wexford, 13.8.50.

Amblyteles (Cten.) panzeri W.  : Courtown, Co. WX. 19.8.50.
Melanichneumon [[perserntator?]] auctt. Brit.  Ballyteige: 12.8.50.
Pychnocryptus sp.   , ant. 19; Ballyteige, 6.8.50.
P. sp.  , ant. 22; Ballyteige, 10.8.50.
Tryphonid with yellow-marked head & thorax, tertaceous matt abdomen (except tergite 1!);  ant. 31 =
Tryphonid  cf. Polyblastid, ant. 29 =

4.8.1950 [? Co. Wexford!]
Campoplex sp.   , black & red, small: Ballyteige, 2.8.50.
=
Bracon cf. nigratus var.  , ant. 32; Wexford, 13.8.50. {dark legs & reddish orbits!
Microplitis tuberculifera?  , Lady's Island, 9.8.50.
Dacnusa elegantula  , Ballyteige, - Aug. 1950.
ant. 32.

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1951.

1st till 6th January 1951. The year opened as 1950 closed with snow-covered hills & hard frost of nights, but a thaw came on the 3rd & continued till Sat. 6th which [[?]] [[?]] very wet. On 4th only a couple of days after the ground was frozen hard there were two Snowdrops with flowers bent over ready to open if sun had got at them beneath drawing room windows & on same day we saw a bunch in  flower in front-garden of house between Bushy Park Rd. & Rathfarnham Bridge (nearly opposite entrance to Rathdown Park. On same day flowers on Daphne laureola by hall door almost open.

8th Jan. 1951. As day sunny & not very cold took 1.30 bus to Brittas Pond to inspect family of Whooper Swans (2 adults & 2 juv.) which Brunker has been reporting there for the last month, as well as the 2 resident Mute Swans. Under perfect conditions of light spent half an hour watching them with glasses & then walked round the lower pond & back by road to The Embankment & so home by 3.30 bus (from Crooksling).

9th Jan. 1951. Fairly heavy snow began at 11 P.M. & continued for some time, but nearly all gone by mid day on 10th. in city. Hills once again white down to 500 feet.

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