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was actively engaged on species descriptions there. He moved to Kawau Island early 
in 1879 and completed his manuscript there (Broun MS. letters). The main Broun 
Collection of New Zealand Coleoptera is in British Museum (Natural History) 
Entomology, London, with a smaller duplicate collection in Entomology Division, 
D.S.1.R., Auckland. 
T.F. Cheeseman, credited by Broun (1880) with the collection of a Hokianga (west 
coast) specimen, was principally a botanist. He was appointed Curator of the 
Auckland Museum in 1874. His original notebooks in the library of this museum have 
been searched but no indication that he visited the west coast Hokianga area prior to 
1880 has been found although he collected in the Whangarei area several times. There 
are also no plant collections by Cheeseman from Hokianga or that area of coast in the 
Cheeseman Herbarium. Cheeseman (1920) later wrote an obituary for Thomas Broun 
in which he mentioned first meeting Broun in 1875. 
A certain W.D. Campbell Assoc,Inst.C.E. published several papers on beaches, 
zoology and geology in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute between 1877 
and 1883, The last three were read to the Auckland Institute in 1881 and 1882 so he 
could well have been the collector of the Waikato Heads specimens of Cicindela 
campbelli Broun, 1886. Campbell may have had direct contact with Broun or indirect 
through Cheeseman, 
Later contemporaries were A.E. Brookes (1876-1955) an amateur conchologist 
and coleopterist of Auckland (in later life) and E.R. Fairburn (1890-1982) an amateur 
coleopterist of Whangarei. The Brookes Collection is now in Entomology Division, 
D.S.1.R., Auckland and the Fairburn Collection is now in the Northland Regional 
Museum, Whangarei. Brookes and Fairburn both collected tiger beetles at Ruakaka 
beach on 25 March 1932. 
C.E. Clarke, another contemporary amateur entomologist lived at Dunedin in the 
South Island before he moved to Auckland in the 1920s. After presenting his general 
collection, including Coleoptera, to the Auckland Museum in 1929, he built up a 
second Coleoptera collection which was divided between Auckland Museum and 
British Museum (National History) in the 1950s. 
A further contemporary was Arthur Richardson (1881-1963), a general collector 
of South Auckland, who collected insects occasionally and exchanged specimens with 
the others. His private museum including insects was sold privately but all his coastal 
tiger beetle specimens are in other collectiions. He collected on Ninety Mile Beach 
with C.E. Clarke on I! January 1927. 
E.D. Pritchard, of Auckland, who is not so well-known amongst New Zealand 
amateur entomologists, has collected (mainly beetles and springtails) in the North 
Island since 1938. His collections, now in the Auckland Museum, include several 
series of coastal tiger beetles from the northern North I. 
B.B. Given (now retired) and the late R.A. Cumber were both professional 
entomologists (of Entomology Division, D.S.1,.R.) who were together on a field trip 
to Spirits Bay when they collected coastal tiger beetles there in January 1957. 
