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the particular families and groups by reference, if possible, to 
a properly named collection or good figures. It is nearly impossible 
to obtain this knowledge from mere descriptions, which are only of 
real practical use after this superficial knowledge has been gained. 
The writer, as an isolated student, found the excellent outline 
figures in Spry and Shuckard’s 4 British Coleoptera Delineated ’ 
very helpful ; but the use of the old nomenclature for the genera 
illustrated is a serious disadvantage to the average student who, 
unless he has some previous knowledge of zoological classification, 
will hardly be prepared to work out the modern equivalents for 
the generic names employed. The exchange of specimens with 
students more advanced is of course very helpful to the beginner ; 
and there is in the Norfolk and Norwich Museum a fair general 
collection of British Coleoptera which is always available for study 
on application to the proper quarter. The student, whose course 
I have attempted to sketch, will soon find out that the aptness of 
entomological descriptions is by no means uniform ; and if, as is 
certain to be the case sooner or later, he finds that his progress in 
determining the species of certain groups is not altogether satis- 
factory, he will find it advantageous to consult the writings of 
continental entomologists on the groups in question where such 
exist. Works dealing with the coleopterous fauna of particular 
regions, and revisional works on special groups, are of comparatively 
frequent occurrence now-a-days, and it is generally not difficult to 
obtain them from the libraries of one or other of the learned 
societies or otherwise. 
In preparing this list I have availed myself of the general works 
of Stephens and Curtis, as well as C. and J. Paget’s ‘ Sketch of 
the Natural History of Great Yarmouth and its Neighbourhood ’ 
(1834), and Burrell’s list mentioned above. The nomenclature and 
arrangement adopted is, with a few trilling exceptions, that of the 
second edition of Sharp’s Catalogue (1883). I have not thought 
it necessary to give separate localities except in cases where a species 
has occurred to me but rarely ; and in all cases where a species 
has not occurred to me personally I have appended the name of 
the person on whose authority it is recorded, with the view of 
assisting individual judgment in deciding whether any given species 
really occurred in the county. 1 am indebted to Fowler’s book for 
many records; the Norfolk references in that work being rather 
