PREFACE. 



This Part concludes Captain Broun' s work on the New 

 Zealand Coleoptera, as submitted by the author, and describes 

 additional species which have been discovered during the 

 period occupied in the publication of the Pirst Part of the 

 work. 



Eor convenience of reference the paging has been made 

 consecutive throughout both Parts, and the families and 

 genera referred to in the Second Part have had affixed to 

 each the page at which they are described in the early por- 

 tion of the work. 



The alphabetical Index has been prepared for the work 

 as if it were in one volume, and it is intended to issue a 

 series of plates giving figures of a typical specimen of each 

 family, as an additional facility for reference. 



JAMES HECTOR, 



Director. 



Colonial Museum, Wellinr/fon, 

 '10th Mat/, 1881. 



