PREFACE. IX 



by English Coleopterists), will do well to consult the 

 works of Lacordaire and Westwood mentioned in the 

 present volume ; from which authors the majority of 

 the characters in it are taken . 



E. C. RYE. 



284, King's Rood, Chelsea, London, 8. W., 

 February, 1866. 



