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the bodies known as Zygosporites,. and the reported, but as yet 

 unconfirmed, presence of diatoms in coal; and concludes with an 

 account of a group of peculiar structures whose nature has not yet 

 been satisfactorily determined, but which are here described under the 

 provisional name of Calcisphcera. 

 Harrogate, Dec, 1880. 



COLEOPTERA OF LIVERPOOL AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. 



(Continued,) 



By John W. Ellis, L.R.S.C.E. 

 CASuABIDM— continued. 



Pelophila. 



P. horealiSf Pk. Two specimens from Bromborough I refer to this 

 species, C S G. 

 Leistus. 



L. spinibarhisy F. Eastham Wood, C S G. I have only seen it in 



the fir plantations at Storeton, where Mr. Smedley and myself have 



taken it abundantly under smaU stones, in spring. One specimen 



from Flaybrick Hill— J. R. L. Dixon. 

 L. fulmharUs^ D. Jackson's Wood, Claughton : Birch Wood, 



Woolton, 0 S G. Very abundant in Eastham Wood ; I once saw 



at least fifty specimens on turning over a log of timber which had 



lain there for some time. 

 L. ferrugineus, L. and L. rufescens, F. Both these species are common 



among dead leaves at Eastham and Prenton, J W E and J H S ; 



Crosby sandhills, C S G and F K. Mr. Curzon has taken both 



species on the shore at Crigburth. 



Clivina. 



C. fossor, L. Banks of Alt, Dey's Brook, and Birket, C S G ; Roby 

 and West Derby, J W E and J H S. I used to take it freely in 

 the brickfields behind Wavertree Park, under stones. 



€. collaris, Hbst. With the former, 0 S G. 

 Dtschieius. 



D. tJwracicus, Ross. Wallasey sandhills, July, J W E ; E R Curzon. 

 D obscurus, Gyll. {tlmracicus, Fab). The commonest of the genus with 



usr— on the sandhills, C S G. 

 B, hyipunctipemiisj Daws. Crosby shore, April and May, C S G. 

 D. stitidus, Dj. Sandhills, Crosby, June, C S G ; Wallasey, J W E. 

 D. politus, Bj. Wallasey sandhills, June — twice met with freely, 



C S G : I have a single specimen from Wallasey, J W E. 



