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[[note in top margin]] Keep this list till you get the box. The bees have names under loc. labels. [[/note in top margin]] [[preprinted]] 4, Thurlestone Road, Newton Abbot, Devon. [[/preprinted]] [[underlined]] 17.X11.34 [[/underlined]] Dear Stelfox, I packed up your box of sawflies to-day, but our P.O. is already so crowded with parcels &c for Christmas that I dont think I will send it till after the 25th. Although I have not really decisively named several things, this is because they belong to groups of species which are in a quite unsatisfactory condition, ^[[insertion]] & [[/insertion]] where the limits [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] between species & varieties are quite uncertain. This seems to me particularly so in the [[underlined]] Pachyn. clitellatos [[/underlined]] group. I bred [[2 female symbols]] of [[underlined]] clitellatos [[/underlined]] on different occasions from [[underlined]] Carices [[/underlined]], but the [[2 male symbols]] were always what Enslin calls [[underlined]] Xantho carpus [[/underlined]], though they belonged of course to the above-named [[2 female symbols]]. That there are several Br. species in this [[underlined]] clitellatus [[/underlined]] group I feel sure, but they need very special working at & breeding. The [[underlined]] Amaurmematus [[/underlined]]- might almost as well be considered a [[underlined]] Pteronidea [[/underlined]]! - is the best thing in the box, I think, & I can hardly doubt that it is the [[underlined]] tunicatus [[/underlined]] of my collection. P.T.O.
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Reviewed. Made minor edits to markup for consistency and corrected entomologist name to Enslin as given in previous pages of letter -@siobhanleachman