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11. 2.9.53 cont. Cloghleague Glen, WI., cont. Aspilota cf. crassifemur? a minute ♂︎, ant. only 22. A. prona m. ♀︎, ant. 20, nice specimen! A. cf. planifrons m. 2♀︎♀︎, ant. both 19, but one ex. much larger than the other. A. cf. leucopus m. ♀︎, ant. 19; slender & long! Dacnusa adducta ♂︎. D. cf. areolaris ♂︎ [No Aphidiidae!] Proctos. 14: only 1 mtd.! Chalcids 2. Cynipids 2. 4th Sept. 1953. A dully misty day with strong SE-E. wind, almost raining, cool. In afternoon Daisy & I drove to the Brittas Ponds where left car & walked to N. end of Lynch Park & back. Swept here & there along roadside & took the following: Lynch Park, Co. Dublin. 800 to 1,000 ft. 3 till 5 P.M. Stenodontus marginellus ♀︎, ant. 25. Cryptinids 4: 1 only kept = Pezomachus small instabilis? ♀︎, ant. 19. Dyspetes praerogator 1♀︎ seen, not kept. Homocidus pectoratorius ♂︎: not mtd. Bassus annulatus ♂︎: not mtd. Stenomacrus laricis ♀︎ (not mtd.) & 2 others = St. carbonariae ♀︎, ant. 21. & Picrostigeus? sp. ♂︎, ant. 26. Mesochorus ♂︎: not mtd. Porizonid ♂︎: not mtd.♀︎♀︎♀︎ 12. 4.9.53 cont. Lynch Park, DU., cont. Rogas cf. nigriceps 2♂︎♂︎: not mtd. Apanteles cf. immunis Hal.? 2♀︎♀︎. Blacus ruficornis ♂︎: not mtd. Macrocentrus infirmus ♀︎, ant. 31. Opius irregularis large ♂︎, ant. 27. Pentapleura pumilio, large ♀︎, black & red legs: not mtd. P. angusutula, small ♀︎: not mtd. Tanycarpa ancilla ♀︎, ant. 23. Aspilota prona complex, v. small ♀︎, ant. 15. Dacnusa areolaris & laevipectus 2 of each: not mtd. D. elegantula ♀︎: not mtd. D. adducta ♂︎. D. (G.) affinis ♀︎. None mtd. Aphidius sp. 1♂︎. } none mtd. Proctos. 8 } none mtd. Chalcids 3. } none mtd. Cynipid 1 } none mtd. 6th Sept. 1953. One of the warmest & finest days of the year, but humid, though strong SE. breeze in the hills. Left home in car, Daisy & I, & drove to Upper Liffey Valley: turned car where R. Liffey runs under the road a couple of miles W. of Sally Gap at ca. 1175 ft alt. & walked back along left bank of river to remains of the old Coronation Plantation (i.e. 1/2 mile) in which there is still quite a lot of oak trees, as well as Scots Pine & Larch & Rowan. Collected by sweeping on the river bank & moor from car to top of plantation (= 1) & off oaks (only oaks!) in the plantation, through which runs quite a deep lateral glacial overflow channel, parallel with the present river.