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99.

7th June 1953, cont.  

In afternoon drove to Rye Water, Leixslip, Co. KD., to get Carex lapidocarpa for Mr. Colville & then on to Deey Lock on Royal Canal where left car at 3.30 P.M.  Walked back to Mr. Mitchell's plantation where swept for an hour under almost perfect conditions but Hymenoptera almost absent & few sweeps produced any at all or only one or two.  Very hot sun, with cool E. breeze.  Left there at 4.30!
                   
Royal Canal, Co. KD. 

Swept in Mr. Mitchell's plantation (Collinstown House): all but 3 or 4 taken on tow path. 
[14 mounted & these labelled on 3.4.1965.]

Tenthredopsis  ♂︎: not mtd.
Pteronidea myosotidis?  ♂︎: not mtd. 
Phaeogenes "fulvitarsis"  ♀︎: not mtd. 
Hemitele sp.  ♂︎: not mtd.
Bassus "tricinctus"  ♂︎: not mtd.  
Homecidus pallipes, ♀︎; ant. 21.  
Exochus separandus Schmied., on tow-path!  Ant. 24.
Thersilochid  ♀︎: not mtd.
Rhyssalus clavator  ♀︎, small, ant. 24. 
Perilitus  ♂︎. 
Blacus ruficornis  ♀︎: not mtd.
Opius 3 = O. celsus, large ♀︎, ant. 38.  
O. xanthogaster m.  ♀︎, ant 33.
O. platynotum  ♂︎, ant. 26
Phaenocarpa ruficeps  ♂︎: not mtd.  
Alloea contracta   ♀︎: not mtd.
Aspilota 2♂︎♂︎: neither mtd.  
Dacnusa aphanta & 1 other: neither mtd.
Coelinius niger  3♂︎♂︎, ant. 39, 39 & 41.  
Aphidius  ♂︎: not mtd.
Proctos  4 = Aclista cantianus ♂︎?  Zygota fuscata ♀︎.  Spilomicrus ♂︎ of Sp.15 = basalyformis fide Nixon.  Diapria Sp. No.1 ♀︎.
Cynipid 1 not mtd. 
Tortoise Beetle = Cassida cf. flaveola? 


100.

8th June 1953. 

Another perfect day after a dull night & early morning. 
At 7 P.M. same a ☿ Bombus lucorum on flowers of Anchusa sempervirens in back garden;  also saw a ♀︎ Odynerus pictus.


9th June 53. 

A very warm day, with moderate SW wind, much sun in forenoon, more clouds in late afternoon as small depression approaches from W.

Returned to Oldtown Ho. estate, Naas, Co. KD.  with R.L. Coe & collected between road & old reed-filled lake as on 4th June.  Filled two suckern - one before & one after lunch.

Oldtown Ho., Naas, KD.

1st Sucker: 11:20 AM till 1.0 PM. 
[41 mtd from 1 & these labelled 29.3.1965]

Rhogogaster "viridis" many seen. 
Taxonus equiseti?  ♂︎.
Dyrinid  ♀︎ = Anteon fulviventre  ♀︎
Cryptinids 7:  Pezomachus ♂︎, Phygadeuon, Leptocryptus, Atractodes, only the last mounted = Atractodes sp. ♂︎, ant. 21.
Meniscus catenator  ♂︎, ant. 45. 
Acrodactyla degener  ♂︎, ant. 41.
Perilissus 3 = P. orbitalis  ♂︎, ant. 39. & P. filicornis  2♂︎♂︎, ant. 43 & 44, the latter with almost black abdomen.
Polyblastus varitarsus = strobilator  ♀︎, carrying larvae;  ant. 41.
Mesoleius incidens Th.  ♂︎, ant. 32.
Homocidus pectoratorius  ♂︎: not mtd.
Stenomacrus sp. affinis ,var. C.  ♀︎, ant. 24.  

Transcription Notes:
Reopened 26 Jan 2021 for further correction 2. Reviewed & corrected @kd