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5.5.53, cont.  Talbotstown, Co. WI., cont.

The following insects swept along old avenue W. of Talbotstown Ho. & S. of Brittas River.

Pachynematus obductus  ♀︎
Centeterus sp.  ♀︎
Hemiteles  5♂︎♂︎, various spp.
Homocidus obscuripes  ♂︎ & Promethes laticarpus  ♂︎.
Bracon sp.?  ♂︎ ant. 32, tergite 2 rugulose, t.3 +/- smooth. 
B. cf. osculator  ♀︎ ant. 26 but propodeum not smooth! 
Oncophanes lanceolator  1 minute ♂︎, ant. 23.
Apanteles pallipes group  3: none mtd.
Aspilota (Synaldis) concolor  ♂︎, very wide head!  Not mtd.
Dacusa areolaris 7 & 3 others = 
D. confinis  ♀︎, ant. 23:  an early date?
D. cf. aphanta, dark var.?  2♂︎♂︎, ant. 28 & 30, legs very dark & wings distinctly so!
Aphidius spp.  9 small ♂︎♂︎: not mtd.
Proctos.  10: none mtd.
Chalcids  3: not mtd.
Cynipids  7: none mtd.
Jumping beetle = Phyllotreta sinuata?


5.5.53 

On this day Robert Lloyd Praeger died in a nursing home in Belfast, following a "small operation" the previous week, in his 88th year.  At a meeting of the R.I. Acad Fauna & Flora Committee — of which he was an original member — I was requested to write an 


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appreciation of him as a naturalist for the Irish Times. 

This I delivered to Dr. A. Farrington at R.I.A. on the morning of the 8th May for his opinion & revision. 

It appeared in the Irish Times the following day with the usual disgusting sub-headings of the modern press.


8th May 1953. 

Still dry, but like 7th, mainly cloudy & therefore not so hot as the previous days.  In afternoon drove to Ballinascorney, ca. 1,000 feet, where swept in pine plantation for half and hour & then walked up the lane on to Knocknavea & above Tumoling Pool & back to car.  Saw first Small Copper Butterfly of the season. 

In the plantation at Ballinascorney House swept the following insects: Co. DU.:-
[only 3 mtd. & these labelled 10.5.53.]

Sawfly.  Lygaeonematus laricis  2♂︎♂︎:-  1 on larch & 1 on birch!  Not mtd.
Ichs.: - Cryptinids 4♂︎♂︎, 2♀︎♀︎ (Phygadeuon or Hemiteles) none mtd.
Perilissus cf. maculatus Bridgman??  Ant. 29.
Stenomacrus  ♂︎, with areolet;  ant. 26
Campoplegid  ♂︎: not mtd.
Aspilota sp.  1♂︎, 1♀︎: not mtd.
Aphidiids  3♂︎♂︎: not mtd.
Hover Fly  1 = 
Weevil  1: not mtd.