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7.6.46, cont.  Sandhills at N. end of Drom, near Fermoyle, Cloghane, SK., cont.

Dacnusa laevipectus?  ♂︎ & ♀︎:  not mtd.
Coelinius viduus  ♂︎:  not mtd.
Aphidius sp.  3♀︎♀︎ = A. avenae?  1♀︎ (ant. bitten off by Psocid) & A. renominatus?  2♀︎♀︎ ant. 16.
Proctos  4, including Procotrupes gravidator  ♀︎ & this only mtd.
Chalcids  2.  Not mtd.
Some beetles for E.O'M.


Saw in garden behind hotel at 11 AM.  
Vespa rufa & B. sylvestris ♀︎♀︎.
Crabro IV-maculatus, Bombus lucorum & agrorum & Tenthredo livida ♂︎.
Also took Meteorus leviventris ♀︎ on window in hotel:  ant.{ small dark specimen ant. 24, tergite 1 smooth]


8th June 1946.

After a fine night & morning, an hour's heavy rain between 11 AM & 12 noon, then a very fine afternoon & not a breath of wind.

Walked up valley & then cut across moor onto the big moraine bounding N. shore of Lough Cruttia at foot of Coumaknock, round head of this lake & across outlet of L. Nalacken at 1150 ft. & up slope south of same into small hanging valley between Drumnamucka & Bealard, round spur of Bealard & into next hanging valley to west & down into main coomb at west end of this & home via path N. of L. Nalacken, down moraine & home by same route as outward journey in morning.


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8.6.46, cont.  Coumaknock, Brandon Mt., SK., cont.

When crossing moor in morning before rain came on a nice patch of Carex limosa, with C. dioica & a form of the latter (?) with both ♂︎ & ♀︎ fruits on same spike, as in the plant discovered by me in Lyons' bog, S. of Louisburgh, Co. WM., in June 1942.

Brought many specimens to dry & several to grow of the latter sedge.  Also saw plenty of Pinguicula lusitanica on this moor - really a Scirpus moor, but with a great deal of Schoenus nigricans.  Many nice plants seen at base of upper cliffs in the two hanging valleys:  Aspidium lonchitis: quite a few plants seen here & there;  Beech Fern:  one nice little clump in a crack just west of Bealand, fronds only 2 to 3 inches high;  Asplenium Ruta-muraria: a group of 3 tiny plants in chink near base of cliffs W. of Bealand - a most strange find on Old Red Sandstone;  Alchemilla alpina: in several places;  Saussurea alpina: in five or six places;  Oxyria digyna: frequent as we approached the 2,000 ft. contour;  Mossy Saxifrages: frequent, but not everywhere, chiefly on the scree below gullies & few on cliffs;  forms from the big, long-leaved hirta, through small Drucei-like greener, hairy forms;  two affinis-like plants with stellate flowers;  also several greener, more glabrous forms;  about 20 bits brought to grow;  Sea Pink very rare & only a few plants seen.  On way home saw above L. Nalacken