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59./ 22.5.52, cont. Swords estuary, Co. DU. Phaeogenes sp.? ♀︎, ant. 22. Pezomachus? sp. ♂︎, ant. damaged! Hemiteles sp. blackish sp. ♂︎♂︎ common: 1♂︎ mtd. ant. 21; also 1♀︎, ant. 21. ? same species [[strikethrough]] Phygadeuonids? [[/strikethrough]] Gen. et sp.? ♂︎♂︎, 1 mtd. black legs, ant. 24. Phygadeuonids? 2 large ♂︎♂︎, white face; ant. both 32. Cryptus? sp. ♂︎, black, ant. 25. Gen. et sp.? small ♂︎ = Polyaulon cf. fuscipes ♂︎, ant. 18. Mesochorus sp. 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎: 1♂︎, 1♀︎ mtd. ant. 35 ♂︎ & 36 ♀︎ respectively Canidia sp. 1, not mtd. [Pimpla sp. swept but not kept: ♀︎ turionellae group] Proctos 4 Chalcids abundant, 16 in sucker. Beetle (Staph.) 1 in sucker Dipteron minute, brachypterous 23rd May 1952. Another very hot fine day. 24th May 1952. Very hot & nearly all sunny. Met Mr. A.G. Davis (President of Conchological Soc. Gt. B. & I.), & his two friends Messrs. Bartolomé & Payne, at 60./ 24.5.52, cont. Attanagh & River Nore, Co. QC. King's Bridge station & took 9.30 AM train to Attanagh in order to visit River Nore & obtain specimens of the pearl mussel Margaritana durrovensis Phillips, in which we were successful in obtaining 25 living & about 100 dead shells but no young ones. These were nearly all obtained by Payne & Bartolomé who put on shorts & waded up the river in 2 to 3 feet of water. This was 1/4 to 3/4 mile above Attanagh Bridge & below the place where R.A. Phillips, Charles Oldham, Robt. J. Welch & I got specimens in Oct. 1926. I did a little sweeping on left (east) bank of R. Nore before lunch & after lunch when sun was hidden by clouds & many more small hymenoptera were about. 1 = scrub & margin of river for 3/4 mile above bridge 2 = marshy hollow into which river flows in flood time just below boundary wall of Castlewood House. Left bank of R. Nore, above Attanagh, QC. Taken or seen at 1 [33 mounted from 1 & these labelled 22.1.54.] Bombus lucorum, agrorum & derhamellus ♀︎♀︎ seen. Psithyrus rupestris on roadside between railway & bridge Andrena jacobi ♀︎ seen. Halictus rubicundus & smaller species seen nesting in sandy bank.
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