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The Australian species of the genus Renocila are recorded for the first time. Three species are recorded: R. ovata Miers, R. alkoo n. sp., and R. plesiopi n. sp. Lironeca dubia Nierstrasz is found to be a synonym of Renocila ovata. The genus Rosca Schibdte & Meinert is placed in synonymy with Renocila. A synoptic list of all Indo-Pacific species of Renocila is given, as well as a new generic diagnosis and a key to the Australian species. BRUCE. N.L., 1987. Australian Renocila Miers, 1880 (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), crustacean parasites of marine fishes. Records of the Australian Museum 39(3): 169-182. The genus Renocila was previously known from Australia by a single record of an unidentified species (Healy & Yaldwyn, 1970). The genus is apparently uncommon in Australian waters there being few specimens in museum collections, while 6 weeks of field work on the Great Barrier Reef(2-4 hours under water each day) failed to obtain any fresh material. The genus has four species in the Caribbean (Williams & Williams, 1980), and eight species in the lndo-Pacific. Of the Indo-Pacific species two, R. periophthalma and R. recta, are based on juvenile specimens which lack the species-specific characters of the adult. The status and identity of these two species are therefore uncertain. The number of species is likely to increase, for I have seen specimens of another two Renocila species from Australia, but lack sufficient material to describe them, while material recorded by Richardson (1910) as R. ovata (USNM 40494, also USNM 231172-4) is an undescribed species. The distribution of Renocila around Australia and Indonesia is given in Figure 9. A key to the Australian genera of externally attaching cymothoid isopods was given by Bruce (1987). Material and methods follow that of Bruce (1987). Abbreviations used are as follows: AM Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW; BMNH British Museum (Natural History), London; GBR Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia; NMW Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna; Qld Queensland, Australia; QM Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Qld; RMNH Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden; USNM Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.e.; WA Western Australia; WAM Western Australian Museum, Perth, WA; ZMA Zoologisch Museum, University of Amsterdam.