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9th-10th June 1952. 

Very warm & nearly all hot sun.  Many small aculeates in garden, such as Crabro varius, C. chrysostomus, Hylaeus communis, Halictus spp., Andrena jacobi (worn ♀︎), Nomada marshamella ♀︎, Megachile (versicolor or centunculus?) ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎;  Odynerus pictus ♂︎♂︎, Bombus lucorum, B. terrestris (☿ on Helianthemum in front garden), B. hortorum ♀︎ at Foxglove & Snapdragon, B. agrorum ☿♀︎, B. muscorum (a lovely ♀︎ at Snapdragon on 10th), Psithyrus barbutellus ♀︎ & Bombus lapidarius.  [The ♀︎ Psithyrus rupestris not seen for some days!] - See entry under 16th June, p.78 ->


11th June 1952.

A very warm soft day with gentle NW. breeze & considerable hot sun bursts;  dull in evening & no wind.  In afternoon drove to Manor Kilbride, Co. WI. & collected in & around triangle of roads, as often before.  Filled 2 suckers:  insects plentiful.

1 = N. & narrow end of triangle
2 = broad, S., end of triangle, by trickle of water along road from Tinnode to Upper Liffey, & birch scrub & swamp above upper road to triangle, but only a few taken in last.

Manor Kilbride, Co. WI.

Taken at 1.
[54 mounted from 1 & these labelled 18.3.1954]

Dryinids  2 (1♂︎, 1♀︎) = 


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11.6.52, cont.  Manor Kilbride, WI., cont.

Taken at 1 cont.

Epitomus pygmaeus  ♀︎: not mtd.
Cryptinids 15 (all ♂︎♂︎!) & only 2♂︎ Pezomachus: [[strikethrough]] mounted [[/strikethrough]] none mtd.
Cteniscids 2, ant. both 28 = 
Promethes pulchellus  ♂︎: not mtd.
Dioctes exareolatus?  ♂︎ - the only Campoplegid:  not mtd.
Mesochorus sp.  1♂︎, 1♀︎;  very minute!  Ant. 21 (♂︎) & 20 (♀︎).
Aperileptus sp.  1♂︎, 1♀︎: not mtd.
Apanteles  black sp.  12 ♂︎ & ♀︎ (? all same species!): none mtd.
Euphorus fulvipes abundant, as on 13.6.1951.
E. flavicornis? miki  1♀︎, ant. 21
Opius spp.14 - only 3 mtd., including irregularis 1♀︎, cingulatus 4 (♂︎ & ♀︎).
O. cingulatus Auctt. non W.  ♀︎, ant. 34.
O. stenops  large ♂︎, ant. 25.
O. lugens  ♂︎, very small, ant. 21.
Pentapleura angustula & pumilio  ♂︎ & ♀︎: 5 all told.
Phaenocarpa livida  1♂︎, 1♀︎: not mtd.
Ph. picinervis  1♀︎ not mtd.
Adelura flaviventris 3: none mtd.
Aspilota spp. very abundant & forming the bulk of the small Bracs.  - 22 mounted, including Orthostigma (2).  dentifemur ♀︎ ant. 18 small;  crassifemur 2♂︎♂︎, 4♀︎♀︎ ant. 25 (♂︎♂︎) 23, 24, 24, 26 (♀︎♀︎);  tumida: not mtd;  fuscicornis, not mtd.
A. divisa S. & G.  1 small teneral ♀︎, ant. 18.
A. atra, a huge ♂︎, ant. 29.
A. cynipidis cf. 2 small ♀︎♀︎, ant. 17 & 18.
A. planifrons group, ♂︎, ant. 24.
A. cf. minutissima  a minute ♂︎, ant. 21.
A. sp.? with dimple, smooth prop., ant. 20.
A. cf. rufifemur  ♀︎, ant. 19.
A. daemon  ♀︎, ant. 17.
A. surcularia?  ♀︎, ant. 16
A. maculipes  small ♀︎, ant. 16.