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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 300.) 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 =