COLEOPTEROUS FAUNA OF LIVERPOOL DISTRICT. 183 
localities have been found for species already recorded, 
and a few mistakes require correction. 
Although the present list contains nearly thirty per cent 
of the British beetles* (and the writer has still a few 
species the diagnosis of which is undecided), very much 
remains to be done in the neglected families of British 
Coleoptera—the smaller Staphylinide, the Trichopterygide 
and other small Clavicorns, the Halticide, &c. 
Some of Mr. Gregson’s localities have disappeared; such 
for instance are Mosslake and Parliament Fields, by the 
spread of the town, and Wallasey Pool by its conversion 
into the Birkenhead docks; but there still remain many 
fine collecting grounds in the neighbourhood, such as the 
Wallasey and Meols sandhills on the Cheshire side of the 
Mersey, and those extending from Crosby to Southport 
on the Lancashire side, these latter differing very con- 
siderably in their flora, and therefore having a beetle-fauna 
somewhat different, from those on the Cheshire coast. 
Access to woods, and we have not many about Liverpool, 
is frequently difficult to obtain, on account of their strict 
preservation, and I doubt not that our list of timber- 
feeding beetles as well as of many other phytophagous 
Coleoptera would be largely increased by careful work in 
the woods about Ince Blundell, Croxteth, and Hale in 
Lancashire, and at Hooton and in Mid-Wirral in Cheshire. 
The ‘‘mosses”’ within the Liverpool district would well 
repay careful working, but their inaccessibility has hitherto 
prevented more than occasional visits on the part of most 
of the collectors of this district. 
The ‘‘Liverpool district” I have defined as that portion 
of Lancashire and Cheshire falling within a circle having 
a radius of fifteen miles from the Liverpool Town Hall. 
This has been selected on account of its being, with a 
* For tabular statement, see the concluding page. 
