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 INSECTS ApiDiE {continued) Apidje {continued) Anthophora retusa, L. Recorded from Marsden, and also on some of the — pilipes, F. J near Manchester mosses of the south-west Bombus. Besides the generally abundant Psithyrus vestalis,Fourc.1 ^ species. B. lapponicuSjF., occurs on — barbutellus, Kirb. I ^ccur not mtre- the moors and hills on the borders — campestris, Panz J quently of the county between Rochdale and COLEOPTERA {Beetles) The first recorded notice of this order as it occurs in Lancashire appears to have been two papers on the Geodephaga and Hydradephaga of the district communicated to the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire [Trans. 1861 and 1862) by C. H. Gregson of Liverpool. Gregson was more of a Lepidopterist than Coleopterist, and these lists can only be taken as approximately correct. At a somewhat later date F. Archer of Liverpool contributed to the ' Liverpool Naturalists Scrap- book ' (a MS. serial having a limited circulation among Liverpool naturalists) a short paper on the Coleoptera of the district (pp. 167-9). It is however to Dr. Ellis of Liverpool that we owe anything like a complete account of the local distribution of this order. This list, origi- nally communicated to the Liverpool Biological Society, 13 April 1888, was subsequently published in book form in 1889. To Dr. Ellis's own exertions are due the greater part of these records, but associated in their compilation were Gregson, Archer, B. Cooke, Chappell, Wilding, Smedley, and Willoughby Gardner, all local students of the order. Unfortunately the district embraced in this list is only a circle of a fifteen mile radius from the Liverpool Town Hall. Hence a large number of the records belong to Cheshire, and only the fauna of the extreme south-east of Lancashire is included in it. The ' Handbooks ' of the British Association meeting at Manchester in 1886, and at Liverpool in 1896, both contain short papers on the Coleoptera of the respective districts. Much more copious and informing is the excellent article contributed by Dr. Chaster and Mr. Burgess Sopp to the Handbook of the Southport meeting of the Association in 1903. To it and to Dr. Ellis's Liverpool list the writer is greatly indebted in the compilation of the following notes, which are not intended to be in any sense exhaustive. His thanks are also due and hereby accorded to the following gentlemen for their kind and valuable assistance — Dr. J. Harold Bailey, Port Erin, Isle of Man (sometime of Pendleton, Manchester), who has assiduously collected in the Manchester district, and re-discovered many species recorded by the older collectors. Dr. G. H. Chaster and Mr. Burgess Sopp of Southport, who have most exhaustively explored that part of the county. Mr. J. F. Dutton of Helsby, Cheshire, to whom most of the Warrington records are due. Ill