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Thank you for sending me the insects from your Wicklow coast. The Ammophilas are very nice - most striking species. The 4 black Tachinids I did not recognize & so ran them down (easily) in my key! & then I remembered the insect. It is Perichaeta unicolor Fall. a species which I only took once, at Abbotsbury some years ago. It is a coastal species & commoner to the west - e.g. Cornwall - where I had my first specimens from Rev Thornley 7 years ago. The Ichneumon is very interesting & also the Saw Flies. I was good of you to get these, but don't trouble about more, as I am not very inclined to incorporate Irish specimens - as Ireland is now a "foreign" country! one might as well Belgian & French flies! From another angle this argument has less force I know, but still I think I shall keep to "Great Britain"! This will all preclude me having specimens for reference & study (in my Foreign Section of my Collections - which you did not have time to see!) I have German, French & Greek Tachnids & I collected quite a lot of stuff in Macedonia including over 1000 pressed plants which I gave to the British Museum in 1920.