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ELLIS : LIVERPOOL COLEOPTERA. 



Homalota longicornis Grav. 



Common. 

 Homalota villosula Kr. 



A specimen from Spiral (J.W.E.). 

 Homalota atramentaria Gyll. 



Common. 

 Homalota parva Sahl. 



Wallasey fJ.W.E.). 

 Homalota melanaria Sahl. (sordida W.C.). 



Common. 

 Homalota aterrima Grav. 



Common at Wallasey (J.W.E.). 

 Homalota pyg'msea Grav. 



A specimen from Wallasey (J.W.E.). 

 Homalota orbata Er. 



A specimen of this scarce species from Wallasey (J.W.E.). 

 Homalota fungi Grav. 



Very abundant in moss. 

 Homalota clientala Er. 



With H. fungi, but not common. 

 Somatium flavicorne Lac. 



I have a single specimen of this species from Bidston Marsh. 



TA CHYPORID^. 



Hypocyptus laeviusculus Mann. 



One specimen from Wallasey, !March 1883 (J.W.E.). 

 Cilea silphoides L. 



Common at Litherland (F.K.) : Wallasey (J.W.E.). 

 Tachiiius humeralis Grav. 



Two or three taken in the district (F.K.). 

 Tacliiinis rufipes De G. 



Very abundant in dung. 

 Tachinns subterraneus L. 



Generally distributed. 

 TacMnus marginelliis F. 



Common in dung. 

 TacMnus laticoUis Grav. (?) » 



A few specimens among the last species (T.W.E.). 

 (I have also a Tachinns^ which the Rev. W. W. Fowler returns me as probably 

 an immature paUipes^ taken in this district by myself, but I do not know the precise 

 locality. ) 



Tacbyporns obtusus L. 



Abundant. 



Naturalist, 



