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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 = 


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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.