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30th August 1953.  

A wild day with showers!  After a very wet day! Strong SW-W. wind, but sun very hot between showers.

Left home in car, Daisy & I, at 11 AM. for Glending, W. of Blessington on WI-KD boundary to gather crab apples & blackberries.  After lunch swept around the now almost dry pond at head (N. end) of Glending overflow channel for half an hour - 2.0-2.30 PM. where took the following insects, in spite of almost a gale!

Glending (pond), Co. KD.
[13 mtd. & these labelled 30.4.1954.]

Red Admiral Butterfly seen in lane at 12 noon during sunburst.

[[strikethrough]] Phaeogenid ♂︎ = [[/strikethrough]] Phygadeuonid?  ♂︎, ant. 23.
Cryptinids 10:  1♀︎ only mtd. = Phygadeuon? ♀︎, ant. 17.
Zootrephus  ♂︎
Homocidus signatus  ♀︎
Stenomacrus curvicaudatus  ♂︎ & ♀︎, ant. 26 & 25 respectively.
Porizonid  ♀︎, long tail, ant. 27 = 
Perilitus autumnalis  ♀︎, ant. 18.
Opius caesus 2 & 2 others = O. cf. exilis?  ♀︎, ant. 26, mandibles not quite closed? with rather feeble basal lobe? otherwise agrees I think!
O. longicornis miki  ♀︎, ant. 27;  agrees with type from same locality!
Pentapleura pumilio  6♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎.
Phaenocarpa conspurcator  ♀︎
Aspilota cf. minutissima? m.  ♀︎, ant. 16, very robust ex. with large head & broad tergite 1.
Dacnusa pubescens, areolaris, maculipes & laevipectus.
Dacnusa diremta & cyclops  1 each.
D. postica  ♀︎, ant. 29+, bitten off!
D. (G.) affinis √  ♂︎, pale stigma, ant. 23.
Chaenusa conjungens  1♂︎, 1♀︎.
Praon volucre & Ephidrus validus  1♀︎ each.
Aphidius spp.  2♂︎♂︎
Proctos  9
Chalcids  5
Cynipids  2
Lady Bird (1 "Chessboard") = 
Dipteron 1 = Helophilus versicolor.


10.

1st Sept. 1953.

Amblyteles armatorius ♀︎ found in garden running on ground & when captured found to have both right wings nearly torn off.  

Very warm & damp, hot sun, no rain.


2nd Sept. 1953.

Gale from SW., with showers over the hills; cooler than 1st; considerable sun in Dublin & no rain during daylight.

In afternoon drove to Cloghleague Glen, in Upper Liffey Valley, Daisy, I, J.P. Brunker & Miss Smythe (his temporary housekeeper) where arrived just after a shower & a little before the next which ended any possibility of my collecting insects.

Cloghleague Glen, Co. WI.  (Alt. ca. 800 ft.?)

Collected by sweeping on left bank between bridge & Church & along track through beech plantation on left bank above bridge. 3.30 till 4.0 P.M.
[17 mtd. & these labelled 6.5.1954.]

Cratichneumon variepes  ♀︎, ant. 24.
Diadromus troglodyes  dark ♀︎, ant. 27.
Herpestomus nasutus?  ♀︎, ant. 24.
Stilpnus gagates?  3♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎: not mtd.
Pimpla flavicoxis?  ♂︎: not mtd.
Megastylus sp. Small, dark ♂︎, ant. 45 = 
Acoelius subfasciatus  ♀︎, runs very fast!  Very smoky wings!!
Meteorus filator  ♀︎, small, ant. 21.
M. cf. obfuscatus??  ♀︎, ant. 21.  Certainly not vexator!
Blacus trivialis  1♀︎, ant. 17.
B. humilis group  2? 2 spp.  2♂︎♂︎, ant. both 19.
Opius cf. stenops  ♀︎.
Pentapleura pumilio  2♀︎♀︎
Phaenocarpa ruficeps  ♂︎, red head, otherwise +/- black.
Orthostigma sp.  ♀︎, ant. 21.
Aspilota fuscicornis  ♂︎ & 5 others:  

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