APOGONIA IIOPEI. 117 



NOTE VIL 



SIX mW SPECIES OF ÏHE MELOLONTHID 

 GENUS APOGONIA 



DESCRIBED BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Apogonia Hopei , n. sp. 



Very closely allied to A. nigricans ^) Hope, from Nepal 

 (Gray's Zoological Miscellany, 1831, p. 23), agreeing with 

 it iu the most important characteristics, viz. size, unu- 

 sually prominent and flattened anterior angles of the 

 thorax, punctuation of the lateral portion of the elytra, 

 smooth raised mesial line on the pygidium which latter 

 is likewise subtruncate at the apex and has the raised 

 apical margin of the truncation slightly emarginate in the 

 middle, etc. but at once distinguished by the extremely 

 closely punctured head and pronotura which gives to 

 these parts an opaque appearance, very clearly to be seen 

 even with the naked eye. The punctuation on the scu- 

 tellum and elytra is somewhat stronger than iu nigricans. 

 In both species the anterior tarsi are slightly broader in 

 the male than iu the female. 



Hab. Madras (Leyden Museum, British Museum and 

 Mr. René Oberthür's collection). 



1) I am kindly informed by Mr. C, O. Waterhouse, of the British Museum, 

 that the name nigrescens (Cistula Entomologica, II, p. 223) is due to a slip 

 of the pen. The name given by Hope is „nigricans", by a printer's error in 

 Zool. Misc. I. c. changed in migricans. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XIX. 



