Ellis : Coleoptera of Liverpool and JsTeighbourhood. 105 

 Broschus. 



B. cepTialotes, L. Common on the shore under driftwood and peat, 

 where it often forms a burrow. 



Sphodrus. 



leucopMhalmus^ L. Two in the neighbourhood of St. John's 

 Market, Liverpool, C S G ; three in a kitchen, Price-street, 

 Birkenhead, about a year since, J H S. 

 Peistonychus. 



P. subcymeus^ M. [terricola, Hbst.) Common in cellars. I have also 

 taken it on Crigburth shore, beneath dead animals. 

 Calathus. 



C. cistiloides, Px. Very common about dry heathy lands, and on the 

 sandhills. 



C.fiavipes and 0. mollis ^ Marsh. Both species very abundant on the 

 sandhills. 



G. fuscus, F. Two from Patrick Wood, C S G. 

 C. melanocephalus, L. Abundant everywhere. 

 C. piceus, Marsh. Eastham Wood, tolerably common. 

 Taphria. 



T. 7iivalis, Pz. Banks of Alt, Hightown, occasionally, C S G. 

 Anchomenus. 



A. jmiceus^ Scop. Common in marshy land ; comes freely to sugar, 

 CSG. 



A. prasinus, Thunb. (dorsalis, Daws.) As abundant as it is beautiful. 

 A. albipes, Fab. Abundant in wet places. 



A. marginatus^ L. This beautiful species seems to be tolerably 



common. Behind Wavertree Park, Wallasey sandhills, Leasowe, 



Crigburth shore, &c., &c., always in damp places. 

 A. ericeti, Pz. On the mosses, scarce; one specimen from Claugh- 



ton, CSG. I have one, most probably from one of the mosses 



given me by Mr. Johnson. 

 A. parumpundatus, F. Very abundant and variable. 

 A. viduus, Pz., and var. mcdstuSf Duft. Common, CSG. One near 



Westminster-road, F K. 

 A. atratus, Duft. Two specimens in. my collection — one from 



Leasowe, and one from West Derby, J W E ; Seaforth, F K. 

 A. piceus,F. Eastham and Hooton, scarce, CSG. 

 A.fuUffinosus, Pz. Eastham, Hooton, and Raby Mere, CSG. 

 A. puellus, D. {pdidnus, Pk.) One specimen by shaking bundles of 



dried reeds on Kidston Marsh, Nov. (F. Archer, in scrap-book.) 



