PREFACE. 
Tuis Catalogue contains an enumeration of the specimens of 
Coleopterous Insects collected in Madeira by Mr. Wollaston, as 
described in his Insecta Maderensia, and of the species which he 
has obtained since the publication of that volume,—some of 
which were procured in the Island by Messrs. Bewicke, Mason 
and Ross, and have by these gentlemen been presented to the 
Museum Collection. 
In the “ Introductory Remarks”? Mr. Wollaston has given an 
account of the collections, and of the object of the Catalogue. 
JOHN EDWARD GRAY. 
Aug. 15, 1857. 
