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17.3 1940, cont.  Opuis spp. (notes on) cont.

Sp. no. 7.  1 small ♀, Derrycunnihy, NK. AWS. 15.7.33. Obviously misplaced, as mouth is open. Transferred to instabilis, with a ?, an antennae 24-segmented. A.W.S. 18.3.1940! Later I think this is a ♀ irregularis! AWS. 8. 4. 1941. 

Sp. No. 8. Saggart : 22.7.36.  1 ♀ (under instabilis = type of O. petiolatus sp.n. A.W.S. 26/3/1941!), but obviously misplaced there as mouth closed & antennae 28-segmented, &c. Very like pallipes, but basal segments of flagellum, short, stout & very hairy : i.e. much more so than in specimens referred to pallipes (Sp. 1 of these notes) on p. 9 ante! A.W.S. 18.3.1940. Propodeum almost smooth! A.W.S. 12.3.41
Radial cell not quite reaching apex of wing, petiole long & slender! AWS. 26.3.41.

Sp. No. 9. [[?]] large ♂ Aemula! A.W.S. 26/3/41. Formerly mtd. on flat : remounted on side. 1 ♂, Devils Glen, WI., A.W.S. 26.10.1930. Very like the ♀♀ in sp. 1 (pallipes!) but antennae 29-seg. reddish at base, very long, 1½ as long as body at least. Wings large (as are pallipes!), recurrent [[?]] further [[?]], abdomen paler & above all the post-petiole nearly smooth, unlike all the above. Therefore left near pallipes & labelled "Sp. 9. 17/3/1940" 19.3.1940! A.W.S. Sternaule family crenulate! [[?]] large ♂ Aemula! A.W.S. 26/3/41. 

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22nd March 1940 (Good Friday)

Spent morning feeding the snails, warm, with considerable hot sun. about noon saw one Bumble Bee in garden (14 Clareville Rd.), not identified but probably Bombus lucorum. Various ferns, including Osmunda and Cystepten's showing first sprouting fronds.

In afternoon, which was dull and inclined to drizzle, drove to Furry Glen & later on to Royal Canal just NE. of Castleknock : willows coming out, blackthorn nearly in bloom, hawthorn nearly in leaf, some Horse Chestnuts just bursting into leaf.

24th March 1940. The Glenade plant of Sax. oppositifolia flowered for the first time & proved to be unique in my experience having the large campanulate flower of the big Snowdon form, but there not rich purple & on the contrary pale pink-magenta, even paler I think than the small flowered form, although in leaf I had felt sure it would have small flowers. There are then 3 forms in Iceland, at any rate : 
(1) Benevenagh, pale, small stellate, pale flowers.
(2) Muchanaght, rich purple, large, campanulate flowers. 
(3) Glenate, very pale, large campanulate, flowers. 

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