PAPERS READ 



A LIST OF THE TROGOSITID^ OF AUSTRALIA, WITH 

 NOTES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By a. Sidney Ollifp, F.E.S., 



Assistant Zoologist, Australian Museum. 



Like the "List of the Cucujidse" the following P^Cper, although 

 embracing all the species at present known to me as inhabiting 

 Australia, must be considered only as an instalment of what careful 

 searching will no doubt reveal. Of the twenty-eight species here 

 enumerated ten are added to the Australian fauna ; of these eight 

 ire described as new, the remaining two probably introduced 

 pecies, Latolceva cassidoides and LopJiocateres Ivani, being for the 

 hrst time recorded as Australian. 



The most important paper on this family which has appeared since 

 the publication of the Munich Catalogue is Herr Edmund Reitter's 

 " Systematische Eintheilung der Trogositidse " published in the 

 somewhat inaccessible " Yerhandlungen" of Brunn. As I believe 

 my copy of this paper, which I received through the courtesy of 

 the author, is the only one to be found in Sydney I have reproduced 

 the diagnoses of the Australian species and added the characters 

 of the genera after a careful examination of the specimens in my 

 own possession. 



Of the genera, as yet detected in Australia, the largest and at 

 the same time the most characteristic- is Leperma, of which eleven 

 species have already been described. The second is Ancyrona, but 

 as the genus is widely distributed and liable to accidental diifusion 

 I attach but little impoi'tance to this fact. 

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