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. 46
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