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COLEOPTERA. 
BY E. W. JANSON. 
In order to obtain a clear starting-point, it has been neces¬ 
sary to notice here all the New British Beetles recorded 
since the last standard work on the subject; and the number 
of species being so great, and the space accorded to me 
so limited, these notices have necessarily been as brief as 
possible. 
At the close however of another season, I hope that the 
space will allow of my giving detailed notices of all the 
new species occurring in 1855, with descriptions, if possible, 
so as to make this portion of the work more interesting to 
the young student. 
Taking Mr. Stephens’s Manual of British Beetles, pub' 
lished in 1839, and which, however great its imperfections, 
is the most complete descriptive catalogue of the order which 
we possess, as my starting-point, I have endeavoured to col- 
lect and arrange the species, which have been since given a s 
indigenous to Great Britain. 
To this end I carefully scanned the pages of the Ento¬ 
mologist and of the Zoologist, and extracted from the nu¬ 
merous lists and notices of captures all the specific n(iw^ 
unenumerated by Mr. Stephens. This accomplished, I sought 
to divide the formidable array of names thus obtained i nt0 
two distinct categories: firstly, those which represented 
not contained in the Manual, and secondly, those which were 
