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 : —
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