A LIST OF THE CUCUJID^ OF AUSTRALIA, WITH 

 NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By a. Sidney Olliff, 



Assistant Zoologist, Australian Museum. 



In the following Paper, which is the first of a series I intend to 

 offer for publication in the Proceedings of this Society, I have 

 endeavoured to give a complete list of the Cucujidse of Australia, 

 as far as they are at present known, together with such notes on 

 their structure and synonymy as were made whilst determining 

 the species in the collection of the Austi'alian Museum. 



Sixteen genera are contained in this list, comprising forty-six 

 species, a number which can only be regarded as showing our 

 ignorance of the Australian Members of this family ; of these 

 species, ten are here described for the first time, and four, viz., 

 Lcemophloeus testaceus, Silvanus surinamensis, Nausihius dentatus 

 and Gryptmnorpha Desjardinsii are almost undoubtedly imported. 

 The last mentioned species is especially interesting as it has been 

 received from widely remote parts of Australia, and even appears 

 to have established itself in Lord Howe Island, where, I am 

 informed, it is usually found on the banana-trees. 



The genera Tristaria and Omma, referred to this family by their 

 authors, are not included here ; the former is allied to Eypocoprus, 

 which has been placed by Dr. G. H. Horn in the tribe Myrme- 

 chixena of the Mycetophagidse, and the latter is now generally 

 considered to belong to the Cupesidse. 



The following typographical enumeration of the species will 

 serve to show their geographical distribution : — 



