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299.)

15th August 1951.  

A fine day with SW. wind inland & no rain near Dublin, but strong SE. breeze along coast & jam over line from Wicklow to Rathdrum in late afternoon & heavy shower over the hills but only very light mist where we were, though mainly dull after 1 o'clock.

Drove with K.G.V. Smith from Much Wenlock, Salop, to Killoughter, at S. end of The Murrough, Co. WI., to collect Diptera (for him), but insects very scarce - I have seldom seen less - & no Conopidae seen during the day - a group in which he is especially interested.

I collected by sweeping in three areas:- 
1 = Along railway & shore for 1/2 mile N. of lane
2 = Along edge of marsh & in marsh beside track 3/4 mile N of Killoughter lane & old station.
3 = along N. side of lane to old station for 1/4 mile. 

[NB. Much of ground along railway burnt & all very dry: marshes tramped & eaten down by cattle]

Bombus muscorum, agrorum, lapidarius & lucorum seen.
Colletes picistigma?  2♂︎♂︎ seen.
Halictus albipes  ♀︎ swept.
Myrmica (laevinodis or ruginodis)  1♂︎ swept.
M. laevinodis  ☿ examined


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15.8.51, cont.  Killoughter, WI., cont.

Taken at 1.
[19 mtd from 1 & these labelled 5.2.1952.]

Phaeogenid  ♂︎, ant. 25 = Dicaelotus cf. rufoniger!  A.W.S. 5.2.'52.
Cryptinids 2 = Exolytus? sp.  2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 26.
Lissonota parallela  1♂︎, 1♀︎;  ant. 43 (♂︎) & 40 (♀︎).
Glypta cf. bifoveolata  ♂︎, ant. 38.
Chorinaeus cf. funebris  1 (♂︎?), ant. 27.
Promethes sp.n. or var. of pulchellus?  ♂︎, ant. 23., with yellow shoulder marks & polished mesonotum, as well as dark streaked mid & hind femora!  A.W.S. 5.2.52.
Homocidus nigritarsis  3♂︎♂︎: not mtd.
Campoplegid  ♀︎: not mtd.
Bracon fulvipes  ♀︎ not mtd.
Apanteles falcatus  1♂︎, 1♀︎: not mtd.
Apanteles sp.  1♂︎, small, all black legs, rugose propodeum
Ap. sp.  2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎  V. small, tergites 1-3 sculptured, terebra hidden, propodeum smooth.
Macrocentrus marginator  1♂︎, ant. 44.
Sigalphus caudatus  ♀︎; ant. 20.
Praon cf. abjectum  4♂︎♂︎: not mtd.
Trioxys?  2♂︎♂︎: not mtd.
Aphidius spp. 10-:  not mtd.
Proctos  2.  Scelio sp. (& one other: not mtd.)
Chalcids 6: none mtd.
Cynipids 2: not mtd.
Dipteron 1 = 
Beetle 1 =