NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE. 



Issued 26th June, 1917. / -tJ 



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DESCRIPTIONS 



OF 



NEW GENERA AND SPKCIES OF COLEUPTERA, 



By Major T. Broux, F.E.8. 



PART V. 



This paper represents the arduous work accomplished during the 

 year 1914. The preparation of descriptions, owing to the large number 

 of minute species of complex structure now recorded, becomes in- 

 creasingly difficult. It should be understood that before any new 

 forms can be detected amongst the collections got together in various 

 parts of the country a large number of specimens must be carefully 

 mounted on cardboard, labelled, and examined, processes which, to- 

 gether, occupied about half of the whole year. 



The ten new genera and 197 species herein described form a total 

 of 3,979 species of New Zealand Coleoptera now known ; and, as it 

 was impossible to examine all the specimens that were mounted and 

 preserved, there can be no doubt that these remaining ones, when 

 named, will increase the number to four thousand. 



On reference to the descriptive part of the paper it will be seen 

 that by far the greater portion of these new species were obtained 

 by Mr. T. Hall within the mountainous areas of Canterbury, Lake 

 Wakatipu, and Nelson ; whilst Mr. A. Philpott, Mr. J. H. Lewis, and 

 Mr. M. 0. Pasco of the South Island, Mr. A. E. Brookes of Mount 

 Albert, and Mr. W. Traill of Stewart Island, kindly conti-ibuted towards 

 the general result. 



Mount Albert, Auckland. 



19th January, 1915. 



13— Bull. No. 1. 



