COLEOPTEROUS FAUNA OF LIVERPOOL DISTRICT. 5y9) 
is very scarce, most of the specimens being the unicolorous 
black niger, Pz. 
Aphodius inquinatus, F. Very abundant, and very 
variable, on the Lancashire and Cheshire coast sandhills. 
One of the earliest to appear in spring. 
(Aphodius melanostictus, Schmidt. I have three speci- 
mens captured on our sandhills which have been referred 
to this species, but I have recently pointed out in a paper 
read before the Entomological Society of London* that 
the British specimens of (so called) melanostictus, Schmidt, 
are not that species, but varieties of inquinatus, in which 
by the coalescence of the elytral spots the dark markings 
have become band-like, forming in an extreme degree of 
this coalescence the variety centrolineatus, Panz.) 
Aphodius conspurcatus, L. Common on the Wallasey 
sandhills in early spring. 
Aphodius porcus, F. A very interesting species, said to 
inhabit the burrows of Geotrupes, about half a dozen 
specimens of which have been recently taken by Mr. 
Wilding at Wallasey. 
Aphodius scrofa, ¥. A very scarce beetle, of which for 
many years the only veritable British example was one 
taken by Mr Sidebotham, at Southport, about 1865 or 
1866 (Ent. Monthly Mag., vol. v., p. 100). 
Aphodius pusillus, Herbst. Common on the coast 
sandhills. 
Aphodius merdarius, F. Abundant on the Wallasey 
sandhills. 
Aphodius prodromus, Brahm. Common throughout the 
district. 
Aphodius punctatosulcatus, Sturm. Abundant every- 
where throughout the whole year. I have taken some 
peculiar dark specimens at Leasowe. 
* Proceedings, Ent. Soc. Lond., 1888, p.°15. 
