. Megacephala australasiae Hope = Megacephala australasiae Hope, 1842 (1a-c: mouthparts) Aenigma cyanipenne Hope var. = Helluonidius cyanipennis (Hope, 1842) (2a: mouthparts) Calloodes grayianus White = Calloodes grayianus White, 1845 (3a: tip of abdomen from ventral, 3b-d: mouthparts, 3e: antenna, 3f: sternum from ventral) Biphyllocera kirbyana White = Biphyllocera kirbyana White, 1841 (4a: antenna) Cetonia (Diaphonia) notabilis White = Diaphonia notabilis White, 1846 Stigmodera elegantula White = Castiarina coccinata (Hope, 1843) Stigmodera erythrura White = Diadoxus erythrurus (White 1846)
. Megacephala australasiae Hope = Megacephala australasiae Hope, 1842 (1a-c: mouthparts) Aenigma cyanipenne Hope var. = Helluonidius cyanipennis (Hope, 1842) (2a: mouthparts) Calloodes grayianus White = Calloodes grayianus White, 1845 (3a: tip of abdomen from ventral, 3b-d: mouthparts, 3e: antenna, 3f: sternum from ventral) Biphyllocera kirbyana White = Biphyllocera kirbyana White, 1841 (4a: antenna) Cetonia (Diaphonia) notabilis White = Diaphonia notabilis White, 1846 Stigmodera elegantula White = Castiarina coccinata (Hope, 1843) Stigmodera erythrura White = Diadoxus erythrurus (White 1846) Stigmodera saundersii Hope = Nascioides parryi (Hope, 1843) Clerus ? obesus White = Zenithicola crassus (Newman, 1840) (9a-b: mouthparts) English: 'Megacephala australasiae, Hope, Proceedings of the Entomological Society, November 1, 1841, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 9, 425. Habitat: North-West Australia. Aenigma cyanipenne, Hope; variety with the whole of the thorax punctulated. The specimen figured, in other respects seems to me to agree with the species above-mentioned, described briefly by the Reverend F. Hope in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society for November 1, 1841. Biphyllocera kirbyana, White, App. to Grey's Australia, 2 462. Habitat: Australia. In figure 4a are well seen the beautifully pectinated lamellae of the antennae in this genus. The species is of a pitchy brown, beneath it is yellowish and hairy; the margin of the thorax is yellowish, its disk has many short rust-coloured hairs, the elytra have 9 longitudinal impressed lines, the spaces between transversely striolated and somewhat scaled. Calloodes grayianus, White, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, January 1845. Head green, punctured, head shield yellowish, sides rounded, somewhat straight in front, under side of head bronzy ferruginous. Thorax narrow, the sides slightly rounded so as to be almost continuous with the lateral line of the elytra; behind it projects in the middle,
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