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NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



BULLETIN No. 1, PART III. 



Issued 29th Mav, 1914. /^^ 



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DESCRIPTIONS 



OF 



NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA. 



By Major T. Broun, F.E.S. 



PART III. 



This part contains descriptions of six new genera and 174 species of 

 New Zealand beetles, and a copy ol: Dr. Sharp's paper on Scymnus 

 circular is. 



Almost all of these insects were discovered by Mr. A. Philpott, of 

 Invercarg-ill. Jiiid Mr. T. Hall, of Methven, within the past year (1912), 

 which, as all oui' entomologists are aware, was a very unfavourable one 

 for indigenous insects. 



Naturalists who may read this paper can hardly fail to notice the 

 remarkable number of species brought to our knowledge during the 

 wintei' from the mountainous region near Methven l)y Mr. Hall, whose 

 indefatigable devotion to scientific lesearch, without pecuniary reward, 

 should win the respect and admiration of all who love Nature. 



The tii-st section of the following list consists of new species of 



Pselapludde, about eighty of which wore sent to me from the JJritish 



Museum on the 19th March, 1911, with a request that 1 would identify 



them. The descriptions of Nos. .'3482 to .'549.'i were published in Ann. 



Mag. Nat. Hist., ser, S, v,,l. 10 (December, 1912), and of Nos. ;U94 to 



3r)0;5 in ser. 8, vol. 11 (P'el^ruary, 191.'3), under the sujjervision of the 



authoi-ities of the British Museum, and copies, on arrival here, were 



forwarded to the colonial museums for reference. 



Monnl Albert. AuckJaiid. 



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(j— Bull. No. 1. 



