ELLIS : LIVERPOOL COLEOPTERA. 



• GEOTRUPES, Latr. 



G. typhaeus, L. 



Mr. W. Gardner informs me he picked up a dead specimen 

 of this species at Stourton. 

 G. stercorarius, L. 



Abundant. 

 G. putridarius, Er. 



Abundant. 

 G. sylvaticus, Pz. 



Common about Eastham and Spital. 

 G. vernalis, L. 



Occurs sparingly. 



SERICA, MacL. 



S. brunnea, L. 



Generally distributed. West Derby (J.H.S.); Liscard and 

 Wallasey (R.W.) ; Eastham, among bracken, and on the High- 

 town shore on several occasions (J.W.E.). I used to see this 

 species flying in swarms round the gas lamps about Mossley 

 Hill, and frequently netted them in mistake for Noctuae. 



MELOLONTHA, Fab. 



M. vulgaris, Fab. 



By no means abundant in our district. 



PHYLLOPERTHA, Kirby. 



P. horticola, L. 



Eastham wood, tolerably common on mountain ash. In June 

 1883 it was very abundant on the flowers of Rosa spinosissima 

 on the Wallasey sandhills, and Mr. Smedley was fortunate in 

 taking a perfectly black specimen. Mr. Archer took a similar 

 specimen at Rock Ferry, in June 1862. 



ANOMALA, Sam. 



A. frischii, Fab. 



Common on the sandhills during summer. 



CETONIA, Fab. 



C. aurata, L. 



The Rev. H. H. Higgins has seen this species in his garden 

 at Rainhill. 

 C. stictica, L. 



Mr. Sidebotham took two specimens, and Mr. Edleston, who 

 was with" him, took one, of this beautiful and exceedingly scarce 

 British species on the flowers of Rosa spinosissi7na on the 

 Lancashire coast, in July 1862 (Ent. Mo. Mag., i. 236). 



Sept. 1885. 



