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26.9.43, cont. Ballinacourty, ST., cont.

Taken at 3, cont.

Dacnusa areolaris group (?areolaris) 9 (♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎)
D. diremta 1♂︎, 1♀︎.
D. affinis 1♂︎, ant. 24.
D. (Gyrocampa) sp.? near uliginosa but head viewed from the side with eyes nearer top & face more protruding: small ♂︎, ant. 25
Proctos 17: only one mounted =.
Chalcids 2: not mtd.
Cynipids 1: not mtd.

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27th Sept. 1943.

A beautiful morning after a fine frosty night - hoar frost in valley, icicles at 2,500 ft. on rocks - with glass up 2 points the day before & up 1 point during night, cloud drift NE & no wind in valley. Therefore set out at 10.40 for L. Diheen to search once more for Saussurea alpina in Hart's recorded station. By 11.30 wind had sprung up from SW. & sky all overcast but we pushed on up valley & crossed outlet of L. Curra & reached moraine round L. Diheen at 12.30, by which time the advancing edge of a depression could be seen about 30 miles to W. & near Limerick. Therefore went at once up to top western cliff - the only one in this coomb that could agree with Hart's record for Saussurea of "about 400 feet below the summit of Galtymore" & searched it from below: then retired to shelter 200 feet down for lunch: after lunch reascended to top cliff & searched it thoroughly from below & above as far as the big gully just E. of great patch of Salix herbacea (evidently the patch referred to by Hart!) but no trace of Saussurea though much Geum rivale by stream up W. edge of cliff & in shelves of upper cliff. For sketch of coomb P.T.O. ->

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