boo iy. hep EE C 
OF 
NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF COLEOPTERA. 
By Masor T. Broun, F.ES. 
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. O. Pasco of the South Island, Mr. A. E. Brookes of Mount 
Albert, and Mr. W. Traill of Stewart Island, kindly contributed towards 
the general result. 
Mount Albert, Auckland, 
19th January, 1915. 
13—Bull. No. 1. 
