APOQONIA EXPEDITIONIS. 53 



NOTE VIL 



ON AN ÜNDESCRIBED MALATSIAN SPECIES 

 OF APOGONIA 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Apogonia expeditionis , n. sp. 



Syn. A. rauca Sharp (nee Fabr. nee Burm.), Midden-Sumatra, 

 Coleoptera, p. 31 (1885). 



Resembling A. destructor Bos from Java, but the punc- 

 tuation on the pronotum is denser and very even , the 

 interspace between the third elytral costa and the lateral 

 rows of punctures is broader, and the punctures on the 

 sides of the metasternum are closer together. 



Length from 9 to 10mm. — Oblongo-ovate, glabrous, 

 black, with dark green or purplish tinges on the elytra 

 (immature specimens are of a brighter or darker rufous 

 brown colour), the palpi and antennae pale ferruginous, 

 the under surface and legs sprinkled with pale coloured 

 bristles. 



The clypeus is broad , its margin reflexed , almost regu- 

 larly rounded, faintly truncate in front; strongly and very 

 densely punctured , the punctures touching one another. 

 The punctures on the face slightly smaller than those on 

 the clypeus, but they are deeper and wider apart; the 

 face is separated from the clypeus by a distinct suture , 

 which is preceded by a sparsely punctured transverse streak, 

 shallowly impressed in the middle. 



Notes from, the Leyden. IMuseuiu, "Vol. XVIII. 



