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Stenus latifrons Er. 



Common. 



OXYTELID^. 



Oxyporus rufus L. 



One specimen captured in fungus in the North Docks (F.K.). 

 Probably introduced. 

 Bledius arenarius Pk. 



Common on the wet sand of the sea-shore, where it forms 

 shallow burrows. 

 Bledius subterraneus Er, 



Crosby (F. Archer). 

 Bledius fuscipes Rye. 



'Crosby, April isth, 1870, the female at the bottom of a 

 burrow i to ij inches deep ; the male in a transverse burrow 

 close to the mouth' (J. Kid son Taylor. Enioviologists' Monthly 

 Magazine, viii. 10). One specimen from Wallasey, and one from 

 Hightown (J.W.E.). 

 Bledius fracticornis Pk. 



Bidston Marsh and Hightown (F. Archer); Wallasey (J.W.E.). 

 Platystethus arenarius Fourc. (morsitans Pk.). 



Common on the sandhills, and occasionally inland. 

 Oxytelus rugosus F. 



Abundant. 

 Oxytelus insecatus Grav. 



Spital and West Derby (J.W.E.). 

 Oxytelus laqueatus Marsh. 



Abundant (like all the species of the genus, in dung). 

 Oxytelus sculptus Grav. 



Rock Ferry (F. Archer); Wallasey (J.W.E.). 

 Oxytelus sculpturatus Grav. 



Crosby (F.Archer); Spital, Hightown, and Wallasey (J.W.E.). 

 Oxytelus inustus Grav. 



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

 Oxytelus maritimus Thoms. 



Wallasey (J.W.E.). 

 Oxytelus nitidulus Grav. 



Common. 

 Oxytelus complanatus Er. 



West Derby (J.W.E.). 

 Oxytelus tetracarinatus Block (depressus Grav.). 



Abundant. 



Oct. 1884. 



