APOGONIA UITSEMAE. '159 



NOTE XIV. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF APOGONIA 

 DISCOVERED BY M. L. RITSEMA IN JAVA. 



BY 



D. SHARP. 



Having recently described several species of Apogonia 

 from the collection of the Ley den Museum ') , I need make 

 no apology for adding another to the number. This spe- 

 cies was discovered by the lamented Marius Leonard Rit- 

 sema, of the Dutch Indian medical service, who died in 

 July last on the passage from Atjeh to Batavia, and I 

 have with melancholy pleasure named it in honour of this 

 esteemed physician and zealous naturalist. 



Apogonia Ritsemae, n. sp, 



Parvula, breviter oblonga, sed anterius angustata, ca- 

 pite parvo , ferrugiuea (corpore interdum nigro-aeneo) ni- 

 tida; capite fortiter punctato, clypeo late et fere profunde 

 emarginato ; thorace fortiter crebre punctato , brevi , lateri- 

 bus rotuudatis; elytris fortiter punctatis , lineis bigemina- 

 tis parum discretis ; pygidio parvo , fortiter profunde punc- 

 tato. — Long. 6 — 7 mm. 



This is one of the smallest species of the genus, and 

 is of short form ; it will be readily identified by the 



1) Notes from the Lei/den Museum. Vol. Ill (1881). pp. 330—233. 

 Notes from the Leyden ÜMuseum, "Vol. I"V. 



