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5th July 1954. 

Left Bettyhill in shower, at 8 AM. by bus to Tongue, where met by hotel car from Durness & spent till 3.30 PM. on road to Durness, stopping several times to look for plants or sweep for insects.  

After rounding the Kyle of Tongue & turning W. over "A'Mhoine" ran through a heavy shower, but this had passed before we reached the watershed at 741 feet & afterwards, the day was almost perfect with glorious hot sun & blue seas & blue sky & the scenery superb.  Stopped to investigate the flora of the lochans on each side of the watershed & at the long one S. of the road found much Carex curta, C. goodenowii var. juncea (I believe) in flooded edge of the lochan & a curious form of goodenowii with short ovate ♀︎ spikelets growing on dryish peaty ground some yards above water level.  

Much Drosera anglica also seen.  Again stopped for an hour & a half at highest point of the road from outlet of Loch Hope to Loch Eriboll & went up to cliffs N. of Beinn Poll Ath-roinn, but found the rocks useless for plants & the lochan shown on Bartholomews' map had drained itself under the peat & the site almost dry.  Here, above the site of the lochan Daisy found three flowering plants of Leuchorchis [[Leucorchis]] albida on a rock shelf.  On the N. cliff saw many plants of a Hawkweed, also Oak & 


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Beech Fern, Golden Rod, a very little Vaccinium myrtillus (not seen in Bettyhill area!), but nothing of real interest.  Next stopped for lunch on shore of Loch Eriboll at An t-Sron at about 12.30 noon & after lunch swept in birch scrub S. of road for about 40 minutes & here took the following insects:--

Taken at 1: = An-t-Sron, in birch scrub, Loch Eriboll, SS.  1.0-1.40 P.M.
[50 mounted & these labelled March 1955.]

Cratichneumon rufifrons, var. with all black scutellum, &c.  2♂︎♂︎, ant. 28 & broken.
Phaeogenes cf. scutellaris var.  ♂︎.  Ant. 26.
Epitomus pygmaeus √  ♀︎: ant. 22 = E. parvus Perkins 1954!
Cryptinids 2:  Gen. et sp.?  ♂︎, ant. 27.
Phygadeuon sp.  ♀︎, ant. 19.
Bassus "tricinctus"  ♂︎, ant. 19.
Promethes pulchellus  ♀︎, ant. 24.
Eclytus ornatus  ♂︎, ant. 28.
Mesochorus sp.  ♂︎, ant. 38.
Campoplegid ♂︎, ant. 29 = 
Thersilochid  ♂︎, ant. 23.
Rogas heterogaster  ♂︎, ant. 42.
R. circumscriptus?  ♂︎, very small;  ant. 37.
Apanteles tetricus  ♂︎
Meteorus brunnipes Ruthe  ♀︎, ant. 25.
M. leviventris  ♀︎, ant. 26.
Diospilus speculator  ♀︎, ant. 25.
Leiophron cf. ater  ♀︎, ant. 25