COLEOPTERA OF THE LIVERPOOL DISTRICT. 

 Part IIL 



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



HON. 8EC. LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY^ 



Read before the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society^ 

 November TIth, 1882. 



In continuation of my previous papers on the Coleoptera of the 

 Liverpool District, I purpose this evening bringing before your 

 notice the additions which have been made during the past year, to 

 the species and localities of Adephaga, which are contained in Parts 

 I. and II. ; and then enumerating the species of the small group 

 Palpicornes or Philhydrida, which I know to have occurred in our 

 district, leaving the extensive group of Brach elytra to the considera- 

 tion of another paper, wholly to be devoted to that group. 



The long continuance of wet weather during the past year, has been 

 very unfavourable for beetle collecting; but through the observations 

 and work of Messrs, Kinder, May, 8medley, and Wilding, in addition 

 to the attention I have myself given to them during the year, I am 

 able to add in addition to new localities for many species of Geode- 

 phaga and Hydradephaga, no fewer than seven species of the former, 

 and eight of the latter, to our local list. In addition to the informa- 

 tion derived from the above-named gentlemen, I have to acknowledge 

 an interesting communication on Parts I. and II. from Mr. Joseph 

 Chappell, of Manchester, one of our honorary members. 



The species of Adephaga, now recorded for the first time, are as 

 follows : — Notiophilus 'k-punctaius, Dj.; Dromiua niyriventris, Th.; 

 Fterostichus dilir/ens, Sturm. ; Harpalus serripes, Sch. ; Bradycellus 

 distinctus, Dj.; Bemhidium nigricorne, Gyll.; B. flammulatum, Clair.; 

 HaliplusJlavicoUis, Sturm.; R. Jlaviatilis, Aube.; Hydroporus picipes, 

 F.; H. nigrita, U. angmtatus, Sturm.; Colymhetes exoletus, Forst.; 

 Agabus paludosus, F.; and Gyrinus distincius, Aube. 



GEODEPHAGA. 



NOTIOPHILUS. 



N. ^-punctatus, Dj. Mr. Wilding has taken two specimens of this 



questionable species at Derby, one of which is higuttatiis on one 



side and ^-pundatus on the other, bearing out Mr. Crotch's view 



that these are only varieties of the same species. (See a paper by 



the Rev. W. W. Fowler, in the Ent. Monthly Magazine for Nov., 



1882, on Additions, &c., to the Coleoptera.) 

 KS., Vol. viil. Mar., 1883. 



