APOGONIA SULCATICEPS. 29 



NOTE III. 



THREE NEW SPECIES OF THE MELOLONTHID 

 GENUS APOGONIA 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Apogonia sulcaticeps, n. sp. 



Resembling A. laevicollis Lansb. from Java and Sumatra, 

 but at once distinguished from that species by the clypeus 

 which is shorter, deeply emarginate in the middle and, 

 between the eyes, separated from the face by a deep sulcus. 

 Moreover the punctuation ou the elytra is stronger. 



Length 7,5 — 8,5 mm. — Broadly ovate; glabrous, black, 

 the head, prouotum and scutellum with green and purple 

 or coppery tinges, the antennae and palpi pale ferruginous, 

 the tarsi pitchy brown. 



The head is large, the clypeus broadly emarginate in 

 the middle, the emargination with rounded lateral angles, 

 the anterior margin reflexed ; a deep sulcus between the 

 eyes separates the clypeus from the face; the clypeus is 

 rather remotely covered with large punctures ; the punctures 

 on the face are fine and distant. 



The prothorax is strongly transverse and very convex ; 

 the pronotum is distantly covered with punctures which 

 are a trifle larger than those on the face ; a small impres- 

 sion is present at the basal margin in front of the basal 

 angles of the scutellum; the sides are rounded just behind 

 the middle when viewed laterally, the basal angles are 

 obtuse, the anterior ones acute but not protruding. The 



Notes from the Leyden IVIiiseuiri, Vol. XX. 



