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10-15 March 1937 cont.

six to eight inches deep.  We observed that the wet weather had caused several slips in the coombes on E. side of lower reservoir & that the 3rd coombe had suffered most, the whole "hanging" floor of the coombe having slid down into the reservoir leaving the upper bee-bank almost on the edge of a precipice.

On 9th March in spite of previous snow the Purple Crocus by path to front-gate, 14 Clareville Rd., had produced its annual bloom, only to be flattened like all the Yellow Crocuses by the storm of the 11th.

15th March saw the barometer rising for the first time for a couple of weeks & was a most perfect day after a hard frosty night:  the hot sun during the afternoon brought out the first flower of [[underlined]] Chionodoxa [[/underlined]] in front garden which had hung fire all through the bad weather.

During this period J.E. Flynn continued to report fine weather, except for a few days, & repeatedly saw Painted Ladies in garden at Glengarriff & even along coast to west & actually

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on Dursey Island, which he admits suggests an immigration, rather than the emergence of hibernated specimens, no matter how impossible that may seem.

With his letter of 8th(?) March, J.E. Flynn enclosed a beautiful female ant, [[underlined]] Tetramorium caespitum [[/underlined]],  which he had dug out of a sandy beach near Crookhaven on 7th March, & recognised as a species new to him.  This ant had, in Ireland, only been previously taken by me, on Ballyteige Burrow, Co. WX., where I first discovered it in May 1932.


26th March 1937 (Good Friday)
Had the car on the road again for first time for over two years & George learning to drive.  Very cold E. wind & a few good snow showers, otherwise all sunny, but the first of a series of cold sunny days after much bad weather.

Drove to Ballyhenry Quarry, near Ashford, Co. WI., but saw nothing out, heard no Chiff & chaffs & did not collect anything.

[5 [[male symbol]] [[male symbol]] of [[underlined]] Aphidius [[/underlined]] sp. black legs taken by F. O'Mahony, in St. Anne's, Clontarf, Co. DU., on this date: = ]