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18th March 192[[strikethrough]] 8 [[/strikethrough]]9. The 18th consecutive fine day & about the most glorious of all (except near the coast where cold fog!) after a frosty night & followed by same.
[[underlined]] Valley of Annamoe River from L. Tay to L. Dan. [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Bombus jonellus [[/underlined]] [[female symbol]] seen & caught & released below Ballyrush Cottage.
B. sp. (?? lucorum) [[female symbol]] seen flying across mountain above valley.
[[underlined]] Andrena clarkella [[/underlined]] [[male symbol]] seen sunning itself on tree below Ballyrush Cottage.
Vespa (?? [[underlined]] rufa [[/underlined]]) [[male symbol]] seen at stepping stones below Ballyrush Cottage. [[insertion]] Also saw [[underlined]] Myrmicea  scabrinodis [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] Formica fusca [[/underlined]] [[2 virgin female symbols]], near L. Dan. [[/insertion]]
Also saw Peacock & Tortiseshell butterflies at 1,000.
Much Frog spawn up to 1,200 ft.: mostly hard frozen in morning : close to drifts of snow which still linger in places at this height. 
No chiff-chaff heard! but Wheatear seen!
[[underlined]] Lobelia [[/underlined]] very abundant; with [[underlined]] [[Isocta?]] [[/underlined]] in L. Dan. & just up river above lake discovered large patch of a sedge, [[strikethrough]] which I hope will prove to be [[underlined]] C. aquatilis [[/underlined]] [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] probably was C. Ampullacea [[/insertion]] growing in sandy alavium by edge of water.
Many willows (none out yet!) on flat where river waters L. Dan & much good ground for hymensphtora all along the valley!

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20th-21st A depression approaching on aft of 20th caused first rain of the month, which continued till aft of 21st.
22nd March again brilliantly sunny but ante cyclone came!
27th March 1929. These emerged from cocoon in leaf of [[underlined]] Salix aurita [[/underlined]] a [[female symbol]] [[underlined]] Amauronematus viduatus [[/underlined]] ? whose larva I took in 1928 I believe at Clara, Co. WI; but which may have come from Bohernabreena, Co. DU. A.W.S. 1929.