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Replied 28.6.50. AWS

7 WEYMOUTH AVENUE,
DORCHESTER.

26.6.1950

Dear Mr Stelfox

Thank you for the high-ground species from Co. Dublin.  I should like to retain one for my "Foreign Coll" for reference, as it is a British Species which I have never seen before it is the stubby black & yellow wasp-like one.  I have suggested names for the others, & stuck one of each on a piece of card in your box, in case you cared to refresh your memory of them.  I think the names are correct.  The two Tachinids are both common species here.  No 5. however is very early & I have never seen a June specimen.  End of March or Early April to Early May.  They sun themselves on Beech boles with us.  I have never seen one on a flower.

My wife & I went to Durlston nr Swanage on Thursday & chanced the awful weather here lately & I got down in the ravine a bit out of the wind & got a few things including what I think it must be a female of Tachina baronoffi.  I think Wainwright & Haines each had a ♂︎ from New Forest & then I got 2♂︎♂︎ at White Nothe but the present specimen (if correct!) will be the first British ♀︎ I think.  If Dr Blood had a copy of Marshall then I may be able to get it, as I saw Mrs Blood yesterday & she has not disposed of any of his books yet.  I have persuaded her to give Dr Blood's Chalcididae Collection to Oxford Univ. Mus.

Kindest regards & best wishes to you both
Your servant
C.D. Day

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