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29. 24th Sept. 1953. A lovely day, with much hot sun, after a heavy dew & misty morning. In afternoon drove up E. side of Glenasmole & left car at the second road on left leading over to Glencree. Then walked up this road for a couple of miles & to about 1,200 ft.: sat for a bit to enjoy the view beside a small swampy stream filled with Ranunculus lenormandi (in flower as usual). Saw several Small Tortoiseshell Butterflies, many very worn Bumble Bees (agrorum, lucorum, & the ♂︎ lapidarius) at flowers of purple, & white, Cnicus palustris, a great colony of Halictus rubicundus, ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ all very fresh, on roadside at ca. 1,100 ft. Tried sweeping rushes, &c., along roadside but only the following hymenoptera taken. Slope E. side of Glenasmole, at 1,100-1,200 ft. 3 till 4 P.M. Phygadeuon crassicornis Grav. rather than mixtus Bridgman - Possibly nanus Grav.: see Morley! ♀︎, ant. 20. With spiral segmentation of agdomen; stout rather than clavate antennae, red on basal half. Proctos 3. (Phenoserphid ♀︎ & 2 minute "wingless" spp.) None mtd. NB. Only the Hemiteles mounted. 25th Sept. 1953. Saw a ♀︎ Spathius exarator in motor house, 14 Clareville Rd., when feeding the snails: and about 2 weeks ago killed in mistake for a Psocid a ♀︎ Theocolax formiciformis in house. 30. 26th Sept. 1953. A fine day, with some sunny intervals; no rain in Dublin or at Manor Kilbride till we left, but Glenasmole filled with misty rain as we drove home at 5.15 P.M. In afternoon drove to Manor Kilbride (Daisy & I) & walked up through remains of beech & oak wood to top of Dowry, later collected in the triangle plantation between the three roads as often before. Collected in three areas, as follows:- 1 = Upper wood (above road from Brittas to Athdown: 3.0-3.30. & the insects taken here labelled "DOWRY". Insects plentiful! 2 = S. end of triangle, between the roads. 3.30-4.0 P.M. 3 = Middle of triangle. 4.0-5.20 P.M. Very few insects! Insects taken at 2 & 3 labelled "M. Kilbride". Manor Kilbride, [[strikethrough]] Dowry [[/strikethrough]] Co. WI. Insects taken at 2 [not at 1.] [12 mounted from 2 & labelled Nov. '53] Oronotus binotatus ♀︎, ant. 30. Phaeogenes tibiator ♀︎, ant. 23. Cryptinids 9. Including Pezomachus, Stilpnus, Atractodes & Hemiteles: 2 only mtd. = Atractodes sp. ♀︎, ant. 23. At. sp. ♀︎, ant. 28. Pimpla maculator ♀︎: not mtd. Alexeter sp. 2♂︎♂︎: not mtd. Homocidus pallipes? ♀︎: not mtd. Stenomacrus flavicoxis m. ♀︎, ant. 20. Plectiscus sp. ♀︎: not mtd. Aperileptus sp. 2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎: none mtd.