108 COLEOPTERA. 



the insects have both disappeared. There was, I believe, 

 but one "Marshall" with a "Mus." in Walton's time, viz., 

 Thomas Marshall, Esq., of Trinity Cottage, Leicester ; and 

 to that gentleman I have applied through his son, my friend 

 the Rev. T. A. Marshall. Mr. Marshall, sen., has most 

 courteously responded, both in writing, expressing his utter 

 ignorance of any such insect or name, and practically, by 

 sending me all his unknown or unnamed Ceuthorhynchi to 

 examine, and which were all referable to well-known species. 

 C. crassidentatus is, of course, in every way non-existent. 



33. Pentarthrum Huttoni, Well. ; T. V. Wollaston, Trans. 

 Ent. Soc, 1873 (Oct.), p. 514, note. 

 Rhyncolus (I) Hervei, Allard, L'Abeille, v (1869), p. 475. 



Mr. Wollaston, noticing the occurrence of members oi Pent- 

 arthrum in such remote countries as Western Europe, the 

 Island of Ascensiou, the Malayan and Japanese Archipelagos, 

 New Zealand, Chili and Brazil, gives the above synonymy 

 concerning its original and still typical species, of which h^- 

 notes the three British localities (Exeter, Teignmouth, and 

 Plymouth). 



AUard's examples appear to have been captured at Rennes, 

 and the locality for his insect in Gemminger and von 

 Harold's Catalogue is the department of Finisterre ; so that 

 the extreme western portion of Brittany, exactly opposite 

 to Devonshire, is the only place out of England where 

 P, Huttoni has as yet occurred. Mr. Wollaston justly 

 censures the gross mistake * of describing a Pentarthrum as 

 2i> Rhyncolus ; and charitably ascribes it to the slovenly way in 

 which most continental entomologists mount their specimens. 



* The expression, a " blooming error," has crept into the London 

 vernacular; but it is most probable that the expression "fragrant" 

 blunder, line 4 from bottom, in Mr. Wollaston's note (J. c), is to be 

 attributed to a lajjsics tyjjograpliicus. 



