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1872. It was once taken at TTorsell by Dr. Power. Byrrhus pilula, Linn., var., 

 one specimen of a well-marked form, with a common, angulated median fascia on 

 the elytra, and the prothorax (two spots on the disc near the base excepted), 

 clothed with golden pnh(>scence. and the rest of the vestiture of the upper surface 

 dark. T have seen somewhat similar varieties of 7i. fasciatn.t, Fabr. ^there are 

 several named forms of this species — nitratofaxpiafii.t, Duft., &c.), but not of B. 

 pilnln. Tlomnlofa aiifnmnaUx, YjV.. \u n, rotten pine-stump; TT. liepriticn,Y,r.. by 

 sweeping. Oxi/iplvfi 'Fa!rma)rei,Vnn(\ .. one specimen on the wing. Ceidhnrrhiinclinx 

 melanonticfns, Marsh., a single specimen of a small dark variety, with the light 

 pubescence of the elytra entirely whitish and broken up into spots. This insect 

 was obtained by casual sweeping, a similar example having occurred here last year, 

 both being very different in geni'riil fades from the typical form, which later in the 

 season is common in the district on Lz/ropux eiiropreuft. — Or. C. Champion, Horsell, 

 Woking: Mai/ 14fk, 1903. 



Parnii<! )?ifidiifvf!, Heer, at BirlidaJp, Soiifhpnrt. — T have had for some time a 

 dozen specimens of a species of Parnus in my collection which T had made out to 

 be Parnux vifiihtfii.t. TTeer. This identification has been confirmed by Mr. Tomlin, 

 of Chester, and also by Mr. Champion — to whom he recently sent an example for 

 examination — and he asks me to record it. The insei^ts in question were captured 

 by myself in July, 1890, on the sand-hills at Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire. — J. 

 F. DUTTON, Corse Hill, Helsby, Warrington: April 20th, 1903. 



(ifnarn. 



The Eev. Thoman An.tell Marshall, M.A., F.F.S., was born at Keswick, 18th 

 March, 1827, and died at Ajaccio, Corsica, 11th April, 1903. He was the son of 

 Thomas Marshall, one of the Original Member? of the Entomological Society of 

 London, who published various noies, chiefly on the stridulat-ion of insects, in the 

 old Entomological Magazine, &c., and the father's tastes were inherited by the son 

 in a pronounced manner. For some years his parents lived at Edgbaston near 

 Birmingham, and at the age of 10 he was sent to Bridgnorth School, celebrated 

 for turning out clnssicnl scholars. He gained a Trinity Scholarship and went to 

 Oxford LTniversity ; in his first year there (being 18 years old) he obtained a 

 scholarship, and subsequently took his degree with classical honours. He also 

 plunged deeply into Sanskrit and Hebrew, and was familiar with several European 

 languages. He was a( the British Museum for a short time, cataloguing books, 

 but was induced to fake FToly Orders. He became one of the masters at Chellenham 

 College, and afterwards one of the principals of Milford College. Subsequently he 

 held various livings in England, and then went to Antigua in the West Indies as 

 bishop's chaplain. There he had the misfortune to lose his wife Cwhom he had 

 married in lS,'i2) from fever, and himself narrowly escaped death from the same 

 cause. This event intensified a naturally restless and roving disposition : he returned 

 to England, and (with the companionship of a devoted sister who has furnished 

 much of the foregoing information, and who was with him to the end of bis life) 

 became, about 1889, rector of Botus Fleming, a small parish in Cornwall, where 

 he remained until 1897, when they went finally to Corsica, an island pre- 



