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260. 25th June 49, cont. George joined us for tea at 6 P.M. having travelled by same bus as we came on the previous day. After tea walked N. & took upper road for 2 miles & home by coast road. 26th Jun 1949. Cloudless until evening & still very hot, with gentle E. breeze. Spent forenoon along coast 1 1/2 miles N. of Carnlough & between coast road & sea, where lovely show of Orchis purpurella & Fuchsii & many common sedges grow amongst Iris & Juncus association. Here did a little sweeping & took a few male hymenoptera (for list see p.279. to follow!); also investigated bank of sea-weed (now very much dried) & by splashing sea-water over this brought up many Diptera but only 1 Braconid about size of Phaenocarpa conspurcator (? sex) = ♀︎ Aphaereta cephalotes! In afternoon walked along coast towards Glenarm for 1 1/2 miles & not in shade of sea wall but did not collect. In evening walked up glen to waterfall 261. 26.6.49, cont. Carnlough district, AN., cont. I did a little sweeping in shady part of glen for 1/8 mile below fall & in damper part of floor of the old chalk quarry lower down. For list of insects taken here see p.280 to follow. Painted Lady Butterfly seen on coast road at 10:30 A.M. Helix intersecta (= caperata) abundant on spoil heap outside the old chalk quarry on evening walk. 27th June 1949. A cloudy morning with SW. breeze, but much sun in afternoon; very hot. Gentle E. breeze on coast, but not on plateau. Walked up lane S. of Carnlough River as on 25th & cut over N. end of scarp to Cranny River. Had lunch about 1 P.M. by ruins of old house connected with former cable tramway from mine to coast; then on to Cranny Lough, which nearly dry; then back to marshy bog 1/8 mile E. of lough where Praeger & I had found Carex magellanica & C. pauciflora on 10.7.1920, & although marsh almost dry found plenty of C. magellanica but failed to find any C. pauciflora. Returned along N.S. watershed to Craigfad Lough & found C. pauciflora i.e. on W. of Binnogee! in Scirpus bog on the way & along S. & W.