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57. 15th April 1954. A lovely spring day, after a brief skiff of misty rain at 8 AM. Much more sunny than last few days & sun really hot when out. Wind strong W-NW. & cool. In afternoon drove to Tinnode, Co. WI., & left car at N. end of the lane over Golden Hill: then walked u the lane to top of hill & tried beating larch, Scots Pine & Spruce in the plantation on E. side of summit, but larch scarcely out & nearly all insects beaten came from the Spruce, but only three Hymenoptera beaten. Pimpla elegans ♀︎ & Dolerus aeneus 2♂︎♂︎. On way up lane tried sweeping for the first time this year & surprised at number of minute Parasitica swept, but lane is deep & there was perfect shelter in it, while there was a strong cross wind from NW. The following insects taken here or beaten:- Golden Hill, Co. WI. 3.0 till 4.30 P.M. [11 specimens mtd. & these labelled 17.4.54.] Pimpla elegans ♀︎, ant. 23, beaten out of Spruce. Phaeogenid ♀︎, ant. 21 = Gen. et sp.? Stenomacrus vafer Hlgr. ♀︎, ant. 23. I think this ♀︎ must be the real vafer at last! All records for this sp. in my diaries pereviously are erroneous! Dacnusa areolaris-laevipectus ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎ common: some with much longer radial areolet than others & almost approaching that of longiradialis: 1♂︎, ant. 22 of latter form only mounted (i.e. longer radial areolet!) Monoctonus caricis 5 or 6 small ♀︎♀︎ } none mtd. Aphidius spp. about 8, small, ♂︎♂︎ } none mtd. Cynipids 2 Chalcid 1 58. 15.4.54, cont. Golden Hill, WI., cont. Proctos 7: 2 only mtd. = = {these erroneously labelled 14.4.54! AWS.} Beetles 8 = Coccinella (3). Lima septentrionalis for H.W. Daltry. 15.4.54, cont. At 2.30 P.M. took a ♀︎ Apanteles on roof light of motor-house, 14 Clareville Rd., Harold's Cross, Dublin. 16th April 1954. A most perfect day: entirely sunny & sun very hot, with only slight easterly breeze all day, after almost frost at night. Barometer very high & steady now for last eight days & this morning touched 30.7, but down to 30.6 by evening as centre of anticyclone moves to N. of us. Good Friday! Left home in car at 11 AM. & drove to gate of Kippure House, Upper Liffey Valley, Co. WI., where left car. Walked up the Athdown Brook & then N.W. across the moor & by a tributary to cairn on summit of Seefinn, 2,045 feet. A fire, which we saw a week ago, burnt a large area on S. shoulder of the mountain up to & almost surrounding the cairn, including the ground near the cairn on which I saw & took so many Hymenoptera on 3.5.1953, including Lissonota magdalenae ♂︎♂︎. Tried a little sweeping on way up, but the only Hymenoptera taken were Dacnusa areolaris 2♂︎♂︎ & Monoctonus caricis 1♂︎. Also one small Hemipteron (= ) & on return journey at 3 P.M. literally thousands of a small [[image]] beetle flying in the hot sun over the heather (= ). Dolerus aeneus ♂︎♂︎ abundant up to the burnt area but no Ichneumonids seen. Peacock Butterfly seen twice on lower moor & ♂︎ Orange Tip & probably a ♀︎ seen by roadside at Athdown. Ants: Formica fusca very active where left car & where had cup of tea at 3.30 P.M.