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MUSEUM. ... Megacephala australasiae, Hope, Proceedings of the Entomological Society, November 1, 1841, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 9, 425. STOKES, INSECTS. PLATE 1, FIGURE 1. Habitat: North-West Australia. Aenigma cyanipenne, Hope; variety with the whole of the thorax punctulated. INSECTS. PLATE 1, FIGURE 2. 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. STOKES, INSECTS. PLATE 1, FIGURE 4. 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. STOKES, INSECTS. PLATE 1, FIGURE 3. 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, and is notched over the scutellum: of a lively glossy green, the sides broadly margined with yellow. Elytra much depressed, especially on the sides and behind, having a wide but shallow sinus on the sides; surface punctured, the punctures generally running in striae, some of the rows placed in slightly grooved lines: lively glossy green, sides broadly margined with yellow. Legs and underside ferruginous, bases of abdominal segments green, as are the tips of the femora and all the tarsi: front edge of tibiae of fore-legs without teeth, hind tibiae moderate. Habitat: New Holland, North-West Coast. ... Cetonia (Diaphonia) notabilis. INSECTS. PLATE 1, FIGURE 5. Head for the most part yellow, the yellow extending in a point to beyond a line drawn between the eyes, behind deep black, margin somewhat thickened, brownish, four small obscure spots in front; antennae and palpi brown. Thorax, with many scattered punctures, yellow, with a large black mark occupying the greater part of the upper surfac
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