[Coleoptera] Broun, Th. Manual of the New Zealand coleoptera.

Wellington, J. Hughes, 1880-1893, 7 parts (all published) in 3 vols. w. continuous pagination, (2),XIX,(1 blank),651; XXIII,(1 blank),653-973; XVII,(1 blank),(1),976-1504 p., later hcl., orig. wr. of parts 2-4 pres., 4to. Library (cancel) stamps on endpapers and title-pages.

Junk, Bibliographia Coleopterologica (1935), 4525. Standard work New Zealand beetles, complete sets are hardly ever offered for sale. Broun identified some 3979 species.