114 COLEOPTERA. 



To Mr. Hogan's " Catalogue of Coleoptera found in the 

 neighbourhood of Dublin/' published in the Zoologist, I 

 must also acknowledge myself indebted for many novelties. 



Mr. Wollaston's " Insecta Maderensia" has also afforded 

 its quota, and I may, perhaps, here be permitted to observe 

 that at least three-fourths of the genera of Coleoptera com- 

 prised in Mr. Wollaston's work, and to which order the 

 present volume is restricted, are indigenous to Great Britain ; 

 that their characters have all been re-wrought from actual 

 re-investigation, and that the student of British Coleoptera 

 will, in the pages of this magnificent book, find ample and 

 satisfactory details of upwards of one hundred and fifty genera 

 of British Beetles. 



In the " Transactions of the Entomological Society of 

 London," of which the second part of the eighth volume 

 has just made its appearance, and which embrace a period 

 of no less than twenty years, only three papers have fur- 

 nished matter for the present list. 



Nearly two hundred and thirty species, none of which, it 

 is presumed, are given in Mr. Stephens's " Manual of British 

 Beetles," are comprised in this list; if to these we add those 

 extant in our cabinets, but which have not been recorded, 

 and which certainly do not fall far short of a hundred, it 

 results that three hundred and thirty species have been dis- 

 covered during the last fifteen years, or at the rate of twenty- 

 two per annum, and, judging from the lists of the Coleop- 

 terous productions of countries occupying a geographical 

 position very similar to our own, there exists ample room 

 for at least a corresponding increase during the succeeding 

 fifteen years. 



I will conclude by remarking that the brief period allotted 

 me for the completion of my task, and which has been ac- 

 complished during the short and uncertain intervals afforded 

 by more urgent occupations, has precluded me from referring 



