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179. 1st August 1953. Another lovely day, with hot sun & cloud; no showers. In afternoon we drove to head of Glenasmole, Co. DU., with Len William & spent an hour on the swampy ground where Malaxis paludosa & Pinguicula lusitanica grows & showed him both. Later I swept for half an hour in plantation & around inlet channel at head of upper reservoir in waterworks & here took the following insects:– 4.30-5.0 P.M. Glenasmole, Co. DU. [15 labelled on 1/3/1965.] Sawfly black wings & body, white marked legs = Selandria cinereipes ♀︎ [Hemiteles sp. near gracilis but shorter ant. segments minute ♀︎, ant. 21, swept on Malaxis swamp!] Cryptinids 2: 1 mtd. = Phygadeuon? sp. ♂︎, ant. 25. Mesoleptus paludicola ♀︎, ant. 47: in river channel! Var. with red marked black face. AWS. Campoplegids 2♂︎♂︎ = Dioctes cf. melanius ♂︎, ant. 24. Stenomacrus sylvaticus ♂︎, ant. 26. Idechtis sp. ♀︎, ant. 27. Apanteles falcatus ♂︎. Microplitis mediana, a highly coloured ♂︎. Rogas irregularis, dark ♂︎, ant. 52. Opius 1: not mtd. Phaenocarpa ruficeps ♂︎: not mtd. Aspilota prona 2♀︎♀︎, ant. 22 & 23. Proctos. 2 = Pantoclis sp. ♀︎. Chalcid 1♀︎. Hemipteron, with clubbed antennae = 180. 2nd August 1953. Another beautiful day; mainly sunny but fresh breeze, E. in Dublin, NW. at Landenstown. Left home at 11.15 AM (Daisy, I & Len William) & arrived at Landenstown at 12 noon. Swept edge of Grand Canal & parallel drain 1/4 mile E. of Landenstown Ho. & Lock (S. side) = 1; & after lunch Glyceria-filled drain & marsh in field S. of road & W. of plantation & also W. edge of field S. of plantation = 2. At 2.30 PM. drove on to Brockagh (W. of Properous & near Allenwood) & spent an hour on the uncut bog to N. of road where Len found a nice patch of Rhyncospora fusca (which H E. Green & I had failed to find in 1948(?) after the bog had been extensively burnt in the place I had previously seen it!): much Andromeda, Rhynchospora alba & Drosera anglica still there, but the bog now very dry & doomed as the turf-burning power plant at Allenwood will soon consume all the turf in the district & so deprive the local inhabitants of free fuel.