NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE 



BULLETIN No. 1, PART YIII. 



Issued 1st Maech, 1923. 



DESCEIPTIONS 



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NEW SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA. 



By Major T. Broun, Kt.L.H., F.E.S. 



PART VIII. 



Having been personally closely acquainted with the late Major T. Broun 

 and his work for a number of years past, Mrs. Broun and her daughters 

 the Misses Broun have placed in my hands his last manuscripts for 

 systematic arrangement and numbering, so that the descriptions of the 

 new species which form the subject of this paper could be placed in the 

 Printer's hands for pubUcation. 



The present paper does not record any new genera, but 68 species are 

 described as new to science. This now brings the total of the known 

 New Zealand beetles to 4,323 species — a rather remarkable number when 

 we consider the isolated geographical position of the Islands. 



One species (Beci/ntus reitferi) included in this paper had been 

 described by Dr. Sharp as far back as 1882, but had been overlooked, 

 and in consequence inadvertently omitted from previous Usts. 



This paper concludes practically the life's work of a very able 



scientist, whose love of nature, and enthusiasm in his work on the New 



Zealand Coleoptera, has gained for him a position in the first line of the 



world's entomologists. His unique collection of New Zealand beetles. 



26— Bull. No. 1. . 



