Vi PREFACE. 
note is added at the end of the volume), From the letters and com- 
munications which I have received during the progress of the work, I 
am led to think that the hope I expressed, in the Preface to Vol. I., that 
it might, at all events, prove of some help towards encouraging the 
study of our native Coleoptera, has been to a certain extent realized. If 
such has been, or shall be, the case, I shall be well rewarded for the 
close work and sacrifice of spare time which it has of necessity 
entailed. 
THE ScHoot House, Lincox, 
July, 1891. 
