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Trlgonogenius glohulam, Sol, in Lancashire. -Th\^ little South American 

 Ptinid does not seem to have been hitherto recorded as occurring in Britain. It 

 has been sent me in some numbers recently by Mr. F. Taylor, of Oldham, who finds 

 it living in a corn mill among the refuse of the grain, and climbing up the walls. 

 Probably it is to be met with in many of the Lancashire mills, and its introduction 

 is not of very recent date. I am confirmed in this view by noticing an unnamed 

 and unlocalized specimen in Chappell's collection, which Mr. SchiU kindly allowed 

 me to look through lately, and I have been assured of its occurrence in Manchester. 

 Trigonogenius is akin to NIptus, and hails from Chili, with a var. globosum from 

 New Granada, according to Gemminger and von Harold's Catalogue. ^ There are 

 numerous specimens in the South Kensington collection, labelled "Chili."-lD. 



Coleoptera of the Liverpool district and in Denbighshire in 1899.— During the 

 past year, by no means a favourable one for the Coleopterist, but very few species 

 have come under my notice as additions to the " Liverpool District List." My 

 removal, however, from Cheshire to tbe south may have prevented me fron-< being able 

 to record the discoveries of other more local collectors. Perhaps the most noteworthy 

 addition to the Cheshire fauna has been Phytosus nigriventris,Ohevv.,i^kenhy 

 Mr. Burgess Sopp on the shore of the Dee estuary (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxv, p. 213), 

 and to that of Lancashire, Diglotta sinuaticolUs, Muls., taken at Formby by Mr. 

 B. Tomlin (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxv, p. 290). 



AtLedsham Qymnetron pascuorum was met with in June, and G. villosulus 

 on Hatchmere bog in Delamere, none of the genus having been previously knou-n 

 to occur in the district. Also in Delamere a single specimen of Bylesinus oJeiperda 

 was swept from beneath ash trees. 1 may also perhaps mention as worthy of notice, 

 although the species has been recorded before, a specimen of Aleochara ruficornis, 

 swept \rom grass in a ditch near Ledsham. On the coast sandhills Anomala 

 Frischii and Linionius cylindricus were unusually abundant, and CicindeJa hylrida 

 correspondingly scarce. At Hatchmere in Delamere Donacia cinerea and D. affinis 

 were common on the sedge, and D. discolor abundant in the flowers of the marsh 

 PotentiUa {Comarum). On this marsh Rhagonycha testacea was in profusion on the 

 bog myrtle ; and round a small pool in the forest Poophagus sisymbrii was swept 

 from the grass, thus occurring for the first time in my experience in the district, 

 although it had previously been reported from Moreton. 



A few hours' sweeping near St. Asaph in Denbighshire, in June, where the river 

 Elwy flows beneath the wall of carboniferous limestone in which are situated the 

 well known Cefn Caves, resulted in several interesting additions to the recorded 

 N. Welsh Coleopterous fauna. On watercress, then in full flower, Psylliodes chal- 

 comera was very abundant, and from brooklime {Veronica beccabunga) several 

 specimens of Qymnetron beccabungce and a single Rhinoncus bruchoides were swept. 

 By general sweeping were taken Anisotoma oi-alis, Throscus dermestoides, Aptero- 

 peda orbiculata, Podagrica fuscipes, Crepidodera n'fipes, Phyllodecla cavifrons, 

 Apion subulatum, A. immune, Sitones suturalis, Miccotrogus picirostris, Gymnelron 

 pascuorum, CeuthorrhyncUdias melanarius, and abundance of more generally dis- 

 tributed species: A dead Silpha thoracica was the first specimen of that insect I 

 had seen in N. Wales. Melandrya caraWides was noticed on the wing and in a 

 dead ash tree by the river. 



