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Stockholm Nov. 18th, 1927.

Dear Mr Stelfox,

Now your Glypta are perused & I am returning them to you. Your identifications are not at all bad, in fact most of them are quite right & only wanted a confirmation. It is remarkable how dark the colour is on most of them, a little darker than in Scandinavia, where it is, however, darker than in central Europe. No doubt this is a consequence of your climate with much moisture & little sun. I am sorry you had no species with "broken" costa [[strikethrough]] pr [[/strikethrough]]genalis, but I only remember two, fradigena Thu & genalis Möll., & both are rare, but you had at least a species with an intermediate form (bipunctoria Thunb.), so you can imagine how it looks (see also your notes!). Two species I had almost expected to find in your box, vis mandibulator Thunb. (xanthognatha Thoms.) & femorator Desv. The former is not rare in all Sweden & is easy to recognize by the yellow clypeus [[male symbol]] [[female symbol]].  The latter is a small [[male symbol]] with ± blackish femora & thickly peibescent clypeus, & I think it is simply the [[male symbol]] of vulucrator Gr. Perhaps you will find them in the future. By the study of your specimens I found there is a distinct variability in the length of the terebra within certain species. There is much reason to believe, that different hosts have produced these variations, & I suppose they are real races & not only aberrations. 

Unfortunately your specimens were very difficult to handle & it is sheer luck I have not broken anything. Outside the British Isles entomologists have no experience of the short needles & consider them a nuisance. For Hymenoptera I heartily concur with

Transcription Notes:
Thunb. = Abbreviation of name of species describer. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Peter_Thunberg