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189. 12.8 53, cont. Ballinascorney Ho., DU., cont. When sweeping in the plantation many curious double discs of a deep brown colour & this shape [[image]] were found in the net. These appeared to consist of the upper & lower layers of a leaf - the two stuck together - & inside a small larva was found in each <––> so long, with perfect head, six legs, & like a coleopterous larva. They looked as if they were the discs cut out of a leaf by a leaf miner, but were mostly swept under Scots Pine, though a few oaks, sycamores & birch were also present. A few put into the pot in motor-house with the sawfly larvae. A.W.S. 13.8.1953 Still alive & walking about in 12th week of Oct '53! Also a Cimbex larvae swept off birch from which a ♂︎ C. femorata bred on 22.5.1954. 18th August, 1953. A very nice day of cloud & sun with westerly wind, after a wet day & cold fine night. Left home in car at 11 A.M. (Daisy, I, J.P. Brunker & his friend Miss Smythe of Bournemouth) & drove to Newcastle station on The Murrough, Co. Wicklow. Left for home about 4:30 & home at 5:30 P.M. Showers N. & S. of Newcastle but we got none & the marsh was dry & so sweeping possible all day but wind strong in open marsh & along coast. 190. 18.8.53. cont, The Murrough, Co. WI., cont. Swept for an hour before lunch along drain (now dry) parallel to & inside railway, & a very few insects taken on beach outside railway: 12 noon till 1.0 PM. = 1. After lunch again swept the above drain & dry marshes W. of same & along water-filled drain on edge of the big reed-bed for two hours: 2.0 till 4.0 PM. = 2. The Murrough, S. of Newcastle station, WI. Taken at 1 (before lunch). [22 labelled but not put away till 11/2/1965.} Sawflies. Pteronidea myosotidis 2♂︎♂︎. Athalia cordata & lineolata 1 each. Cryptinids 7: 4 mtd. = Hemiteles? small black ♂︎, ant. 20. Phygadeuon? small, black, black & red abd. ♀︎, ant. 18. Leptocryptus cf. geniculosus Thoms. ♀︎, ant. 25. Pezomachus red sp., "black orbits, lng 3, high ridge": ♀︎, ant. 19. Pimpla maculator? ♂︎ Stenomacrus brevis miki ♀︎, ant. 21. St. cf. atratus ♂︎, ant. 25. S. palustris ♂︎, ant. 26. Polyblastus sphaerocephalus ♀︎, ant. 28, red abd. Meloboris spp. ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ abundant as usual. Campoplegid: 1 small ♂︎. Thersilochid ♂︎, ant. 22. Bracon fulvipes 5♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎ & 9 other (♂︎ & ♀︎) cf. epitriptus complex: none mtd. Chelonus intermedius 2. Apanteles pallipes ♀︎ √. A. near impurus? ♀︎ Orgilus sp. small ♂︎, ant. 29: tergites 1 & 2 matt to apex! Meteorus unicolor W. ♀︎, ant. 32. Diospilus oleraceus ♂︎. Macrocentrus 2♂︎♂︎ = (M. collaris ♂︎, ant. 35. M. infirmus ♂︎, ant. 37.