COLEOPTERA OF THE LIVERPOOL DISTRICT. 



[PAET II.] 



By John W. Ellis, L.R.C.P. ; L.R.C.S., Ed., 



[HON. SEC, LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.] 



Read before Lane, and Ches. Entomoloe-ical Society, Nov. 28tli, 1881. 



Last autumn I read a paper before the Lancashire and Cheshire 

 Entomological Society, in which I noticed all the species of the 

 Geodephaga of this district of which I had any record. I am pleased 

 to find that this list has been of use to some of our coleopterist 

 members, and therefore I am encouraged to continue the subject of 

 the coleoptera of our district, first noticing additional species of 

 Geodephaga, and new localities for some of the more local species 

 noticed in Part I. ; and then passing on to the enumeration of the 

 Hydradephaga, or predacious water-beetles of the district. I have 

 to thank Messrs. May, Smedley, and Wilding for their information 

 on the additions to the Geodephaga, and also Mr. F. Archer, of 

 Crosby, who has kindly lent me his collection of coleoptera of the 

 district, and his entomological diary, which I have found of great 

 service. 



I am pleased to have to record the addition of ten species of 

 geodephega to the district, since part I. was read, viz. : Cymindis 

 vaporarium, L. ; Pterostichus versicolor, Stu. ; Amara lunicollis, Pz. ; 

 Harpalus neglectus. Dj.; Bradycellus harpalinus Dj. ; Patrobus ex- 

 cavatus, Pk. ; Bembidium quinquestriatum, Gyll. ; B. lampros, var. 

 velox, Er. ; B. bipunctatum, L. ; and B. varium, 01. B. bipunctatum 

 was accidentally omitted from the last list, although it occurs in Mr. 

 Gregson's, of 1861. 



GEODEPHAGA. 



Elaphrus. 



E. cupreus, Duft. Bank of a pond between Thurstaston and Caldy, 

 August, A. H. May, Bidston Marsh, F. A.* 

 Clivina. 



C. collaris, Hbst. Seacombe, R. Wilding. 

 Dtschirius. 



D .thoracicus, Ross, and D. nitidus, Dj. Occurred in profusion en the 

 Crosby shore, at high-water mark, June, 1881, J. W. E. 

 N. S., Vol. vii.— Feb., 1882. 



* Initials C. S. G., F. A., J. H. S., and J. W. E., refer to Messrs. Gregson, Ai'cher, 

 Smedley, and myself respectively. 



