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As to your Sphecodes they look to me untypical specimens & difficult. I no longer have my [[insertion]] ^ own [[/insertion]] series [[strikethrough]] of these [[/strikethrough]] for comparison of course. I expect you are right in calling them [[underlined]] hyalinatus [[/underlined]] but I shall have another look at them.
I enclose Blüthgen's talk of the 4 vy difficult species as he is the most critical & expert bee man living, but if [[underlined]] you [[/underlined]] can get anything out of it, you beat me!
My own firm opinion is that he had mixed species under one, as I know that characters he gives for [[insertion]] ^ distinguishing [[/insertion]] a species are far from constant. e.g. he will give to [[underlined]] variegatus [[/underlined]] some characters that are quite frequent on what are positively [[underlined]] affinis [[/underlined]] & so on.
Meyer's talk is very brief, but! Small [[underlined]] ferruginatus [[/underlined]] are, as in the other [[underlined]] Sphecodes [[/underlined]] species, quite common.
I have scribbled this in great haste & it is probably full of errors.
Yrs [[?]]
[[underlined]] R. C. L Perkins. [[/underlined]]

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Part of a loose letter, also shown in image 29 and 34. Reviewed. Solved some of the [[?]] and edited markup to make it consistent with this and previous Stelfox projects. Great transcription as I dont find Perkins writing easy to read! -@siobhanleachman