  We report the discovery of fifteen previously unknown Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars
found as part of an infrared broad-band study of candidate WR stars in the
Galaxy. We have derived an empirically-based selection algorithm which has
selected ~5000 WR candidate stars located within the Galactic Plane drawn from
the GLIMPSE (mid-infrared) and 2MASS (near-infrared) catalogues. Spectroscopic
follow-up of 184 of these reveals eleven WN and four WC-type WR stars. Early WC
subtypes are absent from our sample and none show evidence for circumstellar
dust emission. Of the candidates which are not WR stars, ~120 displayed
hydrogen emission line features in their spectra. Spectral features suggest
that the majority of these are in fact B supergiants/hypergiants, ~40 of these
are identified Be/B[e] candidates.
  Here, we present the optical spectra for six of the newly-detected WR stars,
and the near-infrared spectra for the remaining nine of our sample. With a WR
yield rate of ~7% and a massive star detection rate of ~65%, initial results
suggest that this method is one of the most successful means for locating
evolved, massive stars in the Galaxy.
