List of the described Coleoptera of Tasmania.

The Coleoptera of Tasmania have never been considered as a whole since the time of Erichson, and no list or catalogue of the species has ever been compiled. About 10,000 species have now been recorded from Australia and Tasmania, of which scarcely 400 have been described from Tasmania. A very imperfect knowledge of what species are confined to the island exists, as species supposed only to occur there, are constantly being found in Victoria and New South Wales, and even sometimes in Western Australia and Queensland; on the other hand, Tasmanian collectors frequently obtain mainland species which have never been recorded from Tasmania. I have considered it advisable, therefore, to prepare a list of the species hitherto recorded from Tasmania, adding to the list such species as I have seen in Tasmanian collections, or have myself taken in Tasmania. In this list, the genera and families are placed as far as possible in the order in which they appear in Masters' "Catalogue of the Described Coleoptera of Australia;" the species are placed alphabetically. All known synonyms have been omitted