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been passed to the taxidermist for attention
and it is hoped to have it on exhibition.
BERNARD T. WARD"
ESSEX FIELD CLUB NOTE BOOK
Hoverfly new to Essex
I took a single male specimen of the hoverfly
Epistrophe diaphana (Zett.) from Yardley
Hill, Epping Forest in June this year. This
fly is a typical black and yellow 'Syrphus'
type hoverfly. It is only rarely recorded in
Britain but can be locally frequent where it
occurs. Steven Falk, of the Nature Conservancy
Council, who confirmed the identity of the
specimen, also said it was the first record for
Essex. This brings the Essex post-1970 list
to 162 species, with the total for the county
(including pre-1970 records) to 175 species.
(See R. G. Payne, A Provisional Atlas of the
Hoverflies of Essex, 1989, Essex Biological
Record Centres Publication No. 7. This
booklet should be available from Essex B.R.Cs.)
Essex Specimens in Sheffield City Museums
Glancing through a copy (1981) of the Sorby
record (Natural History Journal of the
Sheffield area), I found an article about the
collections in the Sheffield City Museums and
noted they have in their collections sub-
stantial numbers of W. H. Harwood's specimens