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53. 11th May 1952. Saw a worker Bombus jonellus on flowers of Mediterranean Heath in back garden. Heavy hail & thunder showers in afternoon. Hot sun before & after. 13th to 18th May. Hotter & hotter & more sunny & more sunny as the week progressed. Many small bees seen in back garden, including Hylaeus communis! 18th May. Not so very hot as previous three days & with sea-mist most of the day. As George home for weekend & able to keep Daisy company, I drove Alan Mitchell & his wife to Killoughter, near S. end of the Murrough, Co. WI., arriving there about 11.40 & staying till after 5 P.M. Conditions very perfect for insects but few small hymenoptera about - either along coast or in marsh. Collected by sweeping in two areas, as follows:- 1 = sandy strip outside railway S. of Killoughter old station for about a mile 12 noon till 1.30 P.M. 2 = ditto N. of Killoughter to Grange lane; also edge of marsh S. of & at Grange lane. 2.30-4.30 P.M. Left for home about 5.10 & home about 6.30 P.M. Saw the following bees. Osmia auralenta ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎, Bombus lucorum, agrorum, muscorum & lapidarius, Andrena albicans ♀︎♀︎. A ♀︎ B. muscorum seen on flower of Orchis incarnata at 2. Scilla verna in full flower in many places at 1 & 2. 54. 18th May 1952 cont. Killoughter, WI., cont. Taken at 1. [23 mounted from 1 & these labelled 26.1.1954.] Ichneumon sanguinatorius 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 29 & 30. I. chionomus W. ♀︎, ant. 28. Cryptines 2♂︎♂︎: 1 mounted, ant. 35, black, v. slender abdomen = Phygadeuon? spp. 2♂︎♂︎: not mtd. Atractodes spp. 2♂︎♂︎; ant. 24 & 25. Bracon anthracinus ♀︎ & also ? 1♂︎; not mtd. Apanteles sp. 6♂︎♂︎, very black, with black legs; rather narrow tergite 1. Euphorus cf. pallipes 1 large ♀︎, ant. 23. Opius lugens Hal. ♂︎, ant. 21. Aspilota cf. insidiatrix 2 minute ♂︎♂︎, ant. both 19. Aspilota concinna Hal., small ♂︎, ant. 21, rugose prop., very dark legs, but 2nd cubital cell short & wide & more like that of minutissima! A.W.S. 29.1.1954. A. (S.) cf. emporalis ♂︎, ant. 15, v. small, v. minute, short 15-seg. ant., very black legs, short 2nd cubital, &c. Dacnusa cf. laevipectus (not kept). D. glabra, large ♂︎, ant. 31. D. sp. near leptogaster? ♂︎, ant. 28, blackish legs, &c. Coelinius sp. near viduus 2♂︎♂︎, ant. 40 & 41; very narrow tergite 1, strongly rejected recurrent nerve, &c. Monoctonus caricis ♀︎ Aphidius spp. 2♂︎♂︎. Proctos, ca. 6: none mtd. Chalcids ca. 8: none mtd. Cynipid 1: not mtd. Dipteron 1. Stork Fly =