PREFACE. 



THE following work consists of Parts V., VI., and VII. 

 of the MANUAL OF THE NEW ZEALAND COLEOPTEEA, by 

 Captain Thomas Broun, of Auckland. The former 

 parts, I. to IV., comprising 973 pages octavo, were 

 printed by Government as one of the series of natural- 

 history publications issued by the Geological Survey 

 and Museum Department between 1880 and 1886. 



In those early parts 1,756 species were described, and 

 in the present work 836 new species are added to the 

 list, making the total number of New Zealand beetles 

 known to science to be 2,592 ; and Captain Broun con- 

 siders that over seven hundred species still remain 

 undescribed. 



Of the present additions, 660 have been described by 

 Captain Broun, 172 by Dr. David Sharp, four by Mr- 

 Matthews, and one by M. Fauvel ; and, in order to 

 place these species in proper systematic position, the 

 author, Captain Broun, has found it necessary to 

 establish several new genera. 



The part now published, having formed a succession 

 of communications to the Auckland branch of the New 

 Zealand Institute between 1886 and 1892, is now 

 published by the Board of Governors as a separate 

 volume, being too voluminous for insertion in the 

 annual volume of Transactions. 



JAMES HECTOE, 



DIRECTOR. 



Colonial Museum, Wellington, 

 14th January, 1893. 



