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119 10.6.45, cont. Aherlow, Co. ST. After tea (8 P.M.) spent half an hour sweeping round ponds behind Castlereagh Lo. & took a few Braconids, but very little out & the place flooded & very wet. The following 9 insects mounted & these labelled 11.2.1948 Ponds, Ballinacourty Woods, behind Castlereagh Lodge. 8.0 - 8.30 P.M. Bracon fulvipes ♂︎♂︎: not kept. Dacnusa affinis1 large ♀︎, ant. 24 . D. esbelta √ ♂︎, ant. 32. D. trichopyga m. 2♀︎♀︎, dark wings, ant. both 29. D. cf. senilis group ♂︎, ant. 33 = Chaenusa conjungens ♂︎, ant. 25. Choribidea femoralis miki ♀︎, ant. 16. Ichs. [[strikethrough]] Asthenarus crassifemur ♂︎, A.W.S 1966 [[/strikethrough]] Pezomachus ♀︎, ant. 20. Procto. 1 = Swept dried skin of caterpillar near ponds from which a ♂︎ Rogas testaceus, ant. malformed but +30-seg. emerged on 24.6.1945. A.W.S. 11th June 1945. Started with rain, but cleared about 11.30 AM. Set insects & then went out to ponds behind Castlereagh Lo., but very strong S.W. wind there & only a few insects swept. In afternoon set off at 3.30 on bikes & walked up to L. Curra from Gorman's. 120. 11.6.45, cont. L. Curra, ST., cont. Spent a couple of hours on cliffs S. of lake (at S.W. corner) from cliff rising out of lake on S. shore up to base of main cliff, ca. 2000 ft., & westwards to big gully in S.W. corner of corry: then had tea & came home about 9 P.M. Saw a good deal of Saxifraga hirta (several forms?) from lake shore to main cliffs & brought 4 samples to dry & grow. Oxyria digyna is abundant on the cliff overhanging the lake, where also much Hieracium cf. anglicum cf. Hart, Asplenium viride, Cystopteris fragilis &c. &c. In a deep "cave" on this bit of cliff collected a moss with a very find fruit = Mnium. Saw no other plants of interest on cliffs. On return journey dropped down to outlet stream about half a mile N. of lake & followed it down to where old turf track crosses it at ca. 1000 ft. A little above the former ford on left bank of river saw Ivy (a form with minute leaves!), Teucrium, Salix aurita, Mt. Ash, Crataegus (large bush in full flower), Lathyrus montanus, &c. Below old ford & W. of outlet stream examined several marshy places below springs (alt. ca. 900) where much Hydrocolte, with some Drosera rotundifolia