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127. 28.6.54, (2), cont. Blair Atholl, cont. Proctos. 10: 4 Belytids mtd. Chalcids 6 : none mtd. Found Carex capillaris growing on hillside near a small burn about 200 feet above river. 29th June 1953. Spent forenoon around Lairg, but did not collect insects & caught 1.45 P.M. bus for Bettyhill, where arrived about 6.15 P.M. Rain most of the journey & very heavy during most of it. Saw much evidence of the great storm which blew down so many trees in Scotland early in 1953 (?) - especially in the woods around Tongue. Collected a series of sedges in nice marshy ground & on shore of Loch Shin at Lairg in forenoon. 30th June 1954. Left Hotel Bettyhill about 10.15 & walked down to coast & N. to Creag Ruadh & round the point to Farr Bay & up the Claehan Burn for about half a mile to top of a gorge & then back to Bettyhill across the moors at 6:30 P.M. Had lunch overlooking Farr Bay & afternoon tea in the gorge of the Clachan Burn. Did a little sweeping between hotel & shore (= 1) & on dunes in Farr Bay, but high, cold, wind made collecting almost impossible all day, though we had no rain & considerable sun before & after the almost complete eclipse of the sun at 1.30 128. 30.6.54, cont. Creag Ruadh & Farr Bay, &c. Bettyhill cont. During the maximum eclipse the temperature dropped very much & the light poor & rather weird. Thanks to light cloud we were able to see the eclipse well without smoked glasses. It was very nearly total - the path of totality being across the Shetlands not far to the north. We had not gone far to the north before coming on a rocky bluff with plenty of Oxytropis uralensis, whose lovely purple flowers are about the same shade as those of Orchis purpurella. Some plants over & with almost ripe seed; others in bud. On reaching the sand covered hill E. of Farr Bay found the bluff & almost the whole sward on summit composed of Dryas octopetala. In a marsh by the Clachan Burn saw much Drosera anglica & some Pinguicula lusitanica & much nice Carex dioica with very fat, "prickly" spikelets. Took the following insects:- [22 mtd. from 1 & 2 & these labelled Feb. 1955. All labelled "N.E. Bettyhill, SS."] [N.B. "SS" = West or South Sutherland.] At 1 = fields, &c, between hotel & shore). Dryinids 2♂︎♂︎ = Sawflies. Tenthredo atra ♀︎ Cryptinids 3♂︎♂︎ 1 mtd. Gen. et sp.? white marked clypeus, &c., matt abd., black, ant. 27 = [[strikethrough]] Pemphredon brevicornis ♂︎, ant. 24. [[/strikethrough]] Tryphon rutillator ♂︎ pinned! Bassus "tricinctus" ♂︎: not mtd. Homocidus nigritarsis ♂︎: not mtd. Campoplegid 1: Angitia ♂︎♀︎, ant. 30, - see propodeum [[image]] Apanteles pallidus? ♂︎. Opius cf. levis, a dark ♂︎, ant. 24. Phaenocarpa conspurcator ♀︎: not mtd. Dacnusa areolaris group 6 & 2 others = D. temula Hal. ♀︎, ant. 27. D. elegantula ♀︎, ant 28. Proctos. 2: not mtd. Coelinius sp. ♂︎ ant. 42 from 1 or 2? Chalcids 7: 2 only mtd. =