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14.4.46, cont.  Gollierstown, Co. DU., cont.

Taken at 2. 
[Only 2 mtd. & these labelled 22.2.1949]

[No Ichs at all.]
Aspilota sp. near pullata? - robust, darkish legs, dimple, &c. ♂︎ ant. 24: this, only, mounted! & 1 Procto!
A. (Synaldis) parvicornis  ♂︎
Dacnusa maculipes  ♂︎
D. laevipectus v. tibialis miki frequent ♂︎♂︎ & ♀︎♀︎.
D. longiradialis  ♂︎♂︎ frequent & a few ♀︎♀︎ & possibly other species of areolaris group.
Aphidius sp.?  ♂︎.
Monoctonus caricis  ♀︎.
Chalcids & 2 small Proctos : 1 mtd. =

Greater Stitchwort in flower near the Greenhills.


14th-19th April '45. 

Weather continued fine with cool NW breeze & very hot sun on 15th-16th, but then came a change with semi-gale on morning of 17th, with some drizzle, heavy showers & sunny intervals in afternoon, fine again on 18th-19th, with cold heavy rain on night of 19th-20th & drizzle on 20th till late afternoon & colder.

Many plants showed remarkable growth after the rain of 17th & Euphorbia hiberna (old plant) in front 


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14th-19th April 1946, cont.

garden scarcely above ground on 15th was in flower on 20th.  Sax. rosacea, some "hirta", sternbergii & even drucei practically in flower by 19th (Good Friday) when D.A. Webb (T.C.D.) came to see my mossy Saxifrages.  Orchis mascula in back garden in flower on 18th.  Andromeda & all the Arctostaphylos by 19th.  Silene acaulis from Snowdon opened first flower on 17th & Clare Island plant on 19th.  Betula nana in full leaf, with catkins on 18th.  Carex rigida (Muilrea plant), C. montana & C. sp.? by rubbish-heap (? rigida x goodenowii) all in flower by 19th.

17th April 1946. 

In afternoon took car out for exercise - after one heavy shower, & before the next - & drove via Dundrum through The Scalp & home via Old Connaught, Cabinteely, Stillorgan & Milltown.  Saw nothing of interest except one House Martin just below The Scalp (i.e. S. of Scalp). 

Orthostigma
1♂︎, ant. 20;  1♀︎, ant. 20, wings of latter crumpled, said to have been bred from a bird's nest in Feb. 1946, but given to me dead in March.