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69. 10th May 1953. Another perfect day - all hot sun and cool E. breeze. Left home in car at 10.15 AM & drove to upper Liffey valley 1 mile W of Sally Gap where left car at bridge over R. Liffey, ca. 1,200 ft. & walked up the river for 1/2 mile & then out across the moor to the N. & on to summit of Kippure 2,473 ft., on which neither of us had been before as it is bare granite, sand & boulders, and no plants of any interest to be seen. Returned by slightly different route & joined the Liffey about a mile above the bridge. Left for home about 4.40 and home 5.30. Did a little sweeping on way up & down, but except Diptera & the purple Click Beetle not many insects about. However took the following, between 1,250 ft. & say 2,300 feet on S. slope of Kippure, Co. WI. S. slope of Kippure, Co. WI. Bombus lucorum numerous ♀︎♀︎ seen Andrena albicans ♂︎♂︎ flying around Mt Ash just coming into flower at 1,250 ft. by river. Vespa norvegica ♀︎ collecting pulp off Mt. Ash dead branch. Trichiosoma sp. (♂︎?) on Mt. Ash at 1,250 ft. but failed to sweep it off its perch & lost it. 70. 10.5.53, cont. S. slope of Kippure, Co. WI., cont. Nematine sawfly ♀︎ in rushy place at 2,000 ft. = Gen. et sp.? black abd. Dolerus aeneus ♂︎♂︎ everywhere nearly to summit! Hemiteles sp.? ♀︎: ant. 21, very elongate, small, cubic head, wide areolet, &c. H. sp. a minute black ♂︎ Phygadeuon sp. 2♀︎♀︎. Mesoleid ♂︎, red abd., ant. bitten off short. (? off Mt. Ash) = Campoplegids 2 Apanteles salebrosus? ♀︎: all abd. segments somewhat punctured; tergites 1 & 2 scarcely "keeled"! Aspilota nigrescens ♀︎, ant. 18: very nice specimens! Aphidius spp. 2 = A. sp.? ♀︎ ant. 16-17, last 2 segments united! A. sp.? ♂︎ ant. 17, small black sp., no cubital n.! Proctos. 3; none mtd. Chalcid 1 = Cynipids 2 : not mtd. Diptera 2 = Beetle : Aphodius, black sp., small, = 11th & 12th May. Still sunny & dry with E. wind but signs of approaching change. On afternoon of 12th drove to "Judy's Pinch" in Slade of Saggart & walked E. over hill to Mount Seskin. Tried sweeping in lane at ca. 1100 ft. but too windy & took only one ♂︎, ant. 30, Porizonid (= ) & a ♂︎ Nomada bifida. At this height saw field E. of lane (facing across the valley to the De Selby quarries.) full of Viola lutea & a lovely sight. Still in flower here in last week of Sept. AWS.