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8. 31.5.46, cont. Drom, Cloghane, Co. SK. Afternoon. Meloboris ♀︎, black coxae. Thersilochid? A nice ♀︎ = Helictes ♂︎. Apanteles cf. lateralis? ♂︎. Pentapleura pumilio ♀︎. Dacnusa cf. areolaris ♀︎, with dark legs, long 2nd discoidal areolet & very glabrous tergite 2-3, &c. Chalcid Straiomyid = Several beetles 9. 1st June 1946. A fine day, wind round to NW & moderate, after a fine night: all sunny & mts. clear till 1 P.M., then mist above 2,000 ft. for most of afternoon, clearing at intervals & finally rising to 3,000 ft. about 7 P.M. Left hotel at 10.5 A.M. & reached it again at 8.5 P.M. Walked up to Faha & then on to ridge N. of same & slanted down to Owenafeana & worked up it to L. Duff, inspecting all the likely cliffs on left as we went. Had lunch by river at 1.30. The whole valley & cliffs very poor in plants but by the large series of waterfalls on Owenafeana at ca. 1200 ft. we discovered an abundance of Sibthorpia europea, which so far as I know had not been recorded from this valley previously; later found it by same stream, & very much dwarfed, 1/4 mile below L. Duff, at ca. 2,000 ft. or a little more (fide 1" Ord. map.) Searched in vain for Mossy Saxifrages on the cliffs & by stream, until within 1/4 mile or so of L. Duff, when a form of S. "hirta" (looking very like hypnoides!) was spotted in flower, trailing through thick vegetation on both banks of the stream & up side tributaries for some distance, often growing amongst Juncus (cf. conglomeratus or effusus, but not in flower), with long trailing shoots, some of which bore simple [[margin]] = KB-13 [[/margin]]
Transcription Notes:
Owenafeana = Owennafeana River