PREFACE. 
The present Part forms the commencement of another 
Volume of the * Insecta Saundersiana,* which will he devoted 
to the elucidation of the Nomenclature and Species of the 
important Family Buprestidae, by Mr. Edward Saunders, 
F.L.S. I propose that this Part should commence the third 
Volume of the work. 
I am glad to announce that the completion of Vol. II. 
on Curculionidae, by Mr. H. Jekel, is in hand, and I hope 
soon to have some portion of it before the public. 
W. WILSON SAUNDERS. 
Hillfield, June 14, 1868. 
