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27. 26.9.52, cont. Phoenix Park, DU. In afternoon drove over to Phoenix Park & left car near White Gate, Castleknock, & walked along boundary wall to foot of the Furry Glen & back via the pond. Swept here & there en route, but mainly under trees & along sunk ditch just S of White's Gate, where, contrary to expectation, small hymenoptera were very plentiful! Saw 2 Speckled Wood & 1 Small Tortoiseshell Butterflies & Daisy reported seeing a Bumble Bee. Wasps very plentiful at Ivy on boundary wall. The Ivy is late this year & only a very little yet in flower. Phoenix Park, DU. [38 mounted & these labelled 20.8.1962! AWS.] Hemiptera 2 one all bright green! Dipteron ♀︎: Stratiomyid = Sargus flavipes ♀︎. Beetle: Coccinella (black, with 2 whitish spots) = Platylabus rufus ♀︎, ant. 37, swept at spring head above glen! Cryptinids 23: mostly Hemiteles ♀︎♀︎ or Atractodes spp., or Pezomachus: 5 mounted = Hemiteles cf. inimicus ♀︎, ant. 22. Hemiteles sp. ♀︎, ant. 20. Pezomachus instabilis? wingless ♂︎, ant. 23. Pez. sp. ♀︎, small, ant. 20. Acanthocryptus nigritus ♂︎, ant. 26. Lissonota basalis? ♂︎, pale front coxae: not mtd. Schizopyga atra? ♂︎ Polysphincta tuberosa? ♂︎, dark wings, ant. 24 Acrodactyla degener ♀︎, ant. 21. 28. 26.9.52, cont. Phoenix Park, DU., cont. Homocidus obscuripes 1: not mtd. H. nigricornis Thom. ♀︎, ant. 24. Stenomacrus caudatus Thom. ♀︎, with abd. cocked up at tip! Ant. 26. St. carbonariae Roman, ♂︎, ant. 22. St. near curvicaudatus? ♀︎, small, ant. 24. Cteniscid ♂︎: common "red" sp. ♂︎, not mtd. Lagarotus semicaligatus ♂︎, ant. 48. Mesolieus sp. ♂︎, ant. 34. Leptopygus harpurus? ♂︎. Plectiscus sp. ♀︎. Campoplegids 3♀︎♀︎ not kept & 1♂︎ = Cymodusa leucocera ♂︎, ant. 37. Rogas circumscriptus ♂︎: not mtd. Apanteles fulvipes group 2♀︎♀︎, not mtd. Meteorus scutellator 5 darkish ♀︎♀︎, & 2 mounted, ant. 32 & 33, all out of ivy on wall. Eubadizon extensor ♀︎ off birch: not mtd. E. pallipes ♀︎, ant. 23. Blacus trivialis 2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 17. B. humilis group ♀︎, ant. 17 = Opius caesus 1♀︎, not mtd. Pentapleura pumilio 2♂︎♂︎, pale legs: not mtd. Alloea contracta 1♂︎, not mtd. Adelura flaviventris ♀︎ not mtd. Alysia incongrua var. laevitecta ♂︎, ant. 35. Phaenocarpa picinervis 2♂︎♂︎: not mtd. Phaenocarpa conspurcator 2♂︎♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎: not mtd. Aspilota spp. 20, including A. ruficornis ♂︎ with 1st abscissa cf radius missing in both wings A. dentifemur (1♀︎), A. fuscicornis (♂︎ & ♀︎), A. picticornis (♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎), A. minutissima (1♀︎) &c. Eight only mounted are as follows:- A. ruficornis ♂︎, with freak neuration, ant. 23. A. cf. prona group, ♀︎, ant. 22. A. cf. fuscescens complex, 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 19 & 17. A. sp. ♀︎ with dimple, rugose prop., ant. 18 A. cf. picticornis ♂︎ & ♀︎, ant. both 17. A. (? Synaldis) sp. ♀︎, ant. 17.