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COLEOPTERA OP THE LIVERPOOL DISTRICT. 



JOHN W. ELLIS, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S.E., F.E.S., 



Liverpool; Honorary Secretary, Lancashire ana Cheshire Entomological Society. 



PART X :-EH YNCHOPH OKA. 



(Read before the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, November 30th, 1885.) 



The group of Beetles, the individual members of which are known 

 commonly as ' weevils/ to which the term Rhynchophora is applied, 

 are distinguished by the prolongation of the head into a distinct, and 

 often long and slender, snout or rostrum. Next to the Brachelytra 

 and Clavicornia, this is the largest group of British Beetles, the 

 species known to inhabit our islands being about 530 in number. 

 ■ Owing to the paucity of workers at these insects in our district, partly 

 perhaps due to the difficulty in many cases of discriminating between 

 allied species, I am only able to record about 100 species as in- 

 habitants of our own neighbourhood. I feel confident that careful 

 work at the group — sweeping and beating — will speedily cause an 

 increase in this number. 



Fam. C UR C ULIONIDsE. 

 OTIORHYNCHUS, Germ. 



Otiorhynchus scabrosus, Marsh. Wallasey (R. Wilding) • Aigburth 

 (J.W.E.). 



Otiorhynchus ligneus, 01. Occasionally at Leasowe, Wallasey, and 

 Bidston. 



Otiorhynchus picipes, F. Abundant in hawthorn hedges throughout 

 the district. 



Otiorhynchus sulcatus, F. Common around West Derby (R. Wilding) ; 

 Wavertree (J.W.E.). 



Otiorhynchus ovatus, L. Common on the coast sandhills, and occa- 

 sionally inland. 



PLATYTARSUS, Schon. 



Platytarsus echinatus, Bons. An interesting little hedgehog-like 

 species, of which I took a single specimen at Aigburth, in May 

 1883, by sweeping. 



PHYLLOBIUS, Schon. 



Phyllobius alneti, F. Abundant among nettles in early summer. 

 Phyllobius pyri, L. Common in July, on oak, in Eastham Wood. 

 Phyllobius argentatus, L. Abundant on hedges. 



Aug. 1886. 



