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ELLIS : LIVERPOOL COLEOPTERA. 



A. punctato-sulcatus, Sturm. 



Abundant all over the district. 

 A. contaminatus, Herbst. 



Occasionally common, but of irregular appearance, Wallasey, 

 Bidston, &c., September. 

 A. obliteratus, Pz. 



I once took several of this species in the dung of tame zebus 

 at Spital, and could have probably taken more but that I 

 believed them to be only A. contaminatus. October. 

 A. rufipes, L. 



Very abundant everywhere. Mr. Wilding notices the fact 

 that this insect is common at light. 

 A. luridus, F. 



Crosby (F.A.) ; a single specimen from near Hale was brought 

 to me many years ago. 

 A. depressus, Kug. 



Wallasey, common (R.W.). 



(OXYOMUS, Lap.) 



A. sns, Herbst. 



A single specimen at Wallasey (R.W.) 



A. villosus, Gyll. 



Mr. B. Cooke took a specimen of this scarce species on the 

 sandhills at Southport, June 19th, 1858 (Ent. Mo. Mag., v, 44). 

 A. porcatus, Fab. 



I have taken a few specimens of this species in dry dung on 

 the Crosby shore. 



PSAMMODIUS, Heer. 



P. sulcicollis, 111. 



Of occasional occurrence on the Crosby sandhills. 



^GIALIA, Latr. 



sabuleti, Pk. 



New Brighton, May 1863 (F.A.). 

 iE. arenaria, F. 



Very abundant on the sandhills in spring. 

 JE. rufa, Fab. 



A very scarce species, first taken in Britain by Mr.'F. Archer 

 at New Brighton, in June 1862, and recorded in the Liverpool 

 Nat. Scrap-book, March 1864, p. 186. Mr. Wilding took two 

 specimens in 1883 at Wallasey. 



Naturalist, 



