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28.5.54, cont.  Taken at 2.  Road E. of Carton, KD.  1.30 P.M.

Promethes cognatus  ♂︎ not mtd.
Blacus sp.n.?  A large ♂︎ of humilis group with 20-seg. ant., and 2nd discoidal cell only about 1/2 length of 1st.  ? = tenuicornis miki from York, 6.11.45.
Proctos.  3: none mtd.
Chalcids  2: not mtd.

28.5.54, cont.  Taken at 3.  Garden, Harold's Cross, CU.  3-4 P.M.

Bombus agrorum  ☿ seen, as on previous few days!
Crabro leucostomus & varius.
Nomada marshamella  ♂︎.
Cratichneumon fabricator, dark ♂︎, ant. 39.
Cryptinids 4 = Leptocryptus ruficaudatus?  3♂︎♂︎, ant. 21, 22, 22.
Phygadeuon semipolitus Thoms.?  ♀︎, ant. 24.
Mesoleius scapularis Stephens:  ♀︎, ant. 34.  Fits description to a hair!
Perilissus limitaris Grav. (= naevius Morley!), ♂︎, ant. 36.
Homocidus "sp. near tricolor"  ♂︎, ant. 21.
H. pectoratorius  ♀︎: not mtd.
Agrypon septentrionale, ♂︎, ant. 35.
Campoplegid ♂︎ = Holocremna erythropygus?  ♀︎, ant. 29.  Has been bred from gooseberry sawfuly!! N.B.
Bracon triangulator  ♂︎.
B. variator or striatula Thoms.  ♂︎, ant. 28+.  More like striatula! AWS. 1965.
Phaenocarpa conspurcator  ♀︎. } None mtd.
Aphidius  1 } None mtd.
Dacnusa laevipectus  ♀︎. } None mtd.
Chalcid  1. } None mtd.
Cynipids  2. } None mtd.
Diptera  6:  5 mtd. = 


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30th May 1954.

A marvellous day, all sunny with gentle E. breeze, very warm, following one of the worst days of the year on 29th (Sat.) when with strong NW. shifting to NE & E. winds & torrential rain - almost sleet at times, & so cold we lit a fire.  Driven by E.S.A. Baynes (I alone) to Newcastle Station on The Murrough, Co. WI., where we arrived about noon & left about 4 P.M.  Baynes looking for the Drinker Moth larvae (potatoria!) & I doing general sweeping along the railway & in the marsh;  where at first sweep I took the only Drinker larva found during the day - which produced a Rogas geniculator? ♂︎, ant. 50, on 26.6.1954.

Many Hymenoptera & other insects out during the first hour, but very few after 2 P.M. - possibly owing to the very hot sun.  Wall, Common Blue & Wood White Butterflies seen, the last in the scrub in middle of the marshes.

The Hemipteron Therapha hyascyami frequently swept outside the railway.  Two suckers filled but as both contained insects from the coastal strip as well as from the marsh the contents not kept separate.

The Murrough (between Newcastle station & 5-mile point) Co. WI.
[[11 labelled 8.6.54:  1 labelled 13.2.'55]

Bombus muscorum  Many ♀︎♀︎ seen along coast & also several other species but none noted except agrorum.
Chrysis ignita, Odynerus, Crabro & Andrena spp. seen on Polygonum leaves at station.
Bethylus cephalotes  2♀︎♀︎ swept in marsh