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The COLEOPTEROUS FAUNA of the LIVERPOOL 
DISTRICT. 
By Joun W. Exuis, L R.C.P.E., F.E.S. 
[Read 13th April, 1888. ] 
In October, 1880, the present writer commenced a series 
of articles upon the Coleoptera of the Liverpool district, 
which, after being read before the Lancashire and Cheshire 
Entomological Society, appeared in ‘‘The Naturalist.”’ 
Previously, the only information which existed on the 
subject was contained in (1) two papers by Mr. C. 5. 
Gregson, one on the Geodephaga or predaceous land- 
beetles, the other on the Hydradephaga or carnivorous 
water-beetles, of the Liverpool district (Trans. Historic 
Soc. of Lanc. and Ches., 1861—1862); (2) a few remarks, 
not amounting to more than two pages, on Coleoptera 
collected in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, by Mr. F. 
Archer (Liverpool Naturalists’ Scrap Book, pp. 167 to 169) ; 
and (8) occasional notices of captures of Coleoptera in 
the district scattered through the pages of entomological 
periodical literature. 
The sources of the information contained in the present, 
as in the preceding list, have been (1) the published records 
above alluded to; (2) records in the entomological diaries of 
Mr. F’. Archer and the late Mr. Benjamin Cooke; and (8) 
information given me by Messrs. J. Chappell (Manchesier), 
R. Wilding, J. H. Smedley, Willoughby Gardner, and ie 
late F. Kinder. 
During the eight years that have elapsed since a 
previous list was commenced many species have been 
added to our local beetle-fauna, a great number of new 
