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32.

11.6.46, cont.  Coumanare & L. Camclaun, SK., cont.

on hillside W. of lake.  Next walked across bog to the little Lough Barrot & down slope to Lough Camclaun & had tea amongst rocks on its W. side:  very windy here - full gale up lake! - & waves & full lake made investigating difficult & unpleasant, but think we saw quite a lot of Subularia aquatica, though Elatine hexandra eluded us -> Too early for this - unless a Callitriche-like plant is it:  this & Subularia I brought away to grow & it subsequently flowered!  The upper annex to this lake is almost filled by a bed of Equisetum limosum & in this we started a Teal (female) which from her antics evidently had a brood hidden amongst the Equisetum.  Menyanthes, Potamogeton, Littorella, the long-leaved Isoetes & Juncus bulbosus also growing in the lake.  On way back to road W. of L. Camclaun again took Geomalacus maculosus - this time a huge specimen - crawling on a rock, in almost the exact spot two taken on the 5th June (p.21) & so home at 7.10 PM.  {2 beetles = 

On the col between Connor Pass & Coumanare the bare ground between the peat bogs is rapidly being colonized by plants, including Sea Pink (Armeria)!!


33.

12th June 1946.

A very fine day - the best since we came to Kerry - with NW breeze - all sunny.

Too tired & too many things to do to go out for the day:  spent morning writing letters & getting things packed up for various persons, but went out at 11.30 to get some Orchis "majalis" for Vermeulen of Amsterdam & after getting five, swept Ins. &c. in fields on left bank of the river that comes down from Faha & here took:-

(1) 12.6.46 [12 mounted & these labelled 18.2.1949!]

Dryonids  3:  2♂︎♂︎, 1♀︎ = 
Sawfly Athalia sp.  ♂︎, dark apex to front tibiae:  not mtd.
Cryptinids  14:  none mtd.
Pimpla brevicornis?  ♂︎ } none mtd
Promethes cognatus?  ♀︎ } none mtd
Meloboris  ♂︎ } none mtd
Bracon anthracinus  ♀︎, not mtd.
B. sp.  ♂︎, ant. bitten off by Psocids!  cf. ♂︎ from Rogerstown, (1) 19.7.44.
Perilitus sp.  ♀︎, ant. bitten by Psocids, 19 segments remaining on one.
Opius caesus  1, not mtd.
O. diversipes m.  ♂︎, ant. 29, legs +/- fuscous.
Aspilota (Synaldis) parvicornis  ♂︎, not mtd.
A. (Orthostigma) maculipes  ♀︎, ant. 17, not mtd.