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113. 22nd. June 1953. A very hot, fine sunny day, with no wind, soft & warm, after a wet day. Left home at 11.30 AM., with J.P. Brunker, & drove to Newbridge, Co. KD. Left car on Newbridge-Rathangan road 1 mile N.W. of Newbridge & walked SW. 1 mile to the great marsh which drains N.W.-wards into the Slate River & between Grange Hill & Hill of Allen & feeds also the Grand Canal. In this marsh a couple of weeks ago on a D.N.F.C. excursion a member (Mr. Powell) found the Fly Orchis (O. muscifera) & Brunker wanted to see it, but did not know where to look & thought it rather too late in season. At any rate he did not find it. The marsh very rich in sedges & these include acres of Cladium, Schoenus, Carex paludosa, hudsonii, goodenowii, disticha, hirta, glauca (on dry margin), stellulata, lepidocarpa, ovalis. Also seen more Eriophorum, latifolium, Stellaria uliginosa in the marsh & Henbane outside a rabbit burrow on the moraine N. of the marsh & 1/8 mile N. of the railway. Swept a few insects in lane & fields N. of the marsh & many in various places at E. end of the marsh. Small hymenoptera (Chalcids & Proctos) in very great quantity but Braconids not common as sun probably too hot. 114. 22.6.53, cont. "Morristownbiller" Marsh, &c., West of Newbridge Co. KD. [26 labelled on 4.3.1965 & 1 already labelled in 1953.] Nomada flavoguttata ♀︎. Crabro = C. capitosus ♂︎. Dryinid ♂︎♂︎ 4. Phaeogenid ♂︎. Cryptinids 9. Pimpla melanopyga ♂︎, ant. 26. Phytodiaetus ♀︎. Tryphon signatus ♂︎. Mesoleptus ♀︎. Polyblastus pastoralis?: ♀︎, ant. 29. Stenomacrus curvicaudatus ♂︎, ant. 25. Homocidus (Phythorimus) compressus ♀︎ant. 20. Phthorimus compressus ♀︎, ant. 20. Bassus tricinctus ♂︎: not mtd. Meloboris sp. red coxae common & one other Campoplegid ♀︎ Plectiscid ♂︎ = Eusterynx oligomera ♂︎, ant. 18. Milsella aenigmatica ♀︎ Sp. n. miki! Ant. 17. Bracon fulvipes 8 (♂︎ & ♀︎) & 4 other Bracon = B. undulatus m. ♀︎, ant. 28+ (broken!). B. fraudator ♀︎, ant. 26; ♂︎, ant. 32. B. fulvipes 1 very small ♂︎ only mtd.: ant. only 31. Rogas irregularis 2♀︎♀︎. Microgaster cf. globatus ♂︎ & ♀︎. Hormius moniliatus 13♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎: 1♂︎, ant. 26: ♀︎ ant. 19; only mtd. Meteorus micropterus ♂︎: not mtd. M. ictericus ♀︎, ant. 32. Blacus tripudians ♂︎ Opius cf. exilis Hal. 1♂︎, ant. 25. Alloea contracta ♂︎. Chasmodon apterus ♂︎, ant.? Phaenocarpa conspurcator ♀︎, teneral! Aspilota dentifemur ♂︎; ant. 22.