PBEFACE. 



THIS is a further instalment of the work descriptive of 

 the COLEOPTEEOUS INSECTS indigenous to New Zealand, 

 by Captain Thomas Broun, of which a first volume was 

 issued by this department in 1880, and a second in 

 1881. A portion of the descriptions in the present 

 volume viz., Nos. 1322 to 1557 have already been 

 printed in the Journal of Science, but the author 

 desired the incorporation of these in the present work 

 in order to render it complete for the purpose of refer- 

 ence. The alphabetical Index has been rearranged so 

 as to refer to the whole work as if it were one volume, 

 and thus supersedes the Index given with Part II. 



JAMES HECTQB, 



DIRECTOR. 



Colonial Museum, Wellington, 

 April, 1886. 



