Vi PKEFACE. 



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 heen 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 SCHOOL HOUSE, LINCOLN, 

 July, 1891. 



