118 APOGONIA ORBITALIS. 



Apogonia orbitalis^ n. sp. 



Resembling* A. metasternaUs Rits. ^), from Saigou, as to 

 size, colour and punctuation of the prouotum, but more 

 broadly ovate, less parallel-sided, with smaller head and 

 without the deep semicircular impression on the middle of 

 the metasternum ; moreover the tarsi are not thickened 

 and the basal ventral segments are not opaque. 



Length 9 — 9,5 mm. — ■ Ovate, glabrous, black, the ely- 

 tra with a purple or green hue, the under surface and 

 legs sprinkled with pale coloured hairs. 



The face is faintly impressed along the middle, and 

 deeply punctured ; the punctures are slightly elongate, 

 smaller and wider apart than those on the clypeus which 

 latter is separated from the face by a distinct suture pre- 

 ceded by a smooth streak which is provided with some 

 strong punctures; the anterior margin of the clypeus is 

 narrowly reflexed, faintly truncated in the middle, the 

 truncation with rounded angles, the sides convergent in 

 nearly straight lines ; the eyes are placed in a lower level 

 than the face which makes the inner orbits distinctly 

 prominent. 



The punctuation on the pronotum is somewhat finer 

 than that on the face and very dense and even ; the an- 

 terior angles of the pro thorax are acute but not pro- 

 minent, the sides (viewed laterally) much rounded just 

 behind the middle and the posterior angles are very ob- 

 tuse; the impressions on the basal margin in front of the 

 lateral angles of the scutellum are present but not very 

 distinct. The scutellum has in the basal angles some very 

 distinct punctures. 



The elytra are covered with punctures smaller than 

 those in metasternaUs ; each elytron shows two very distinct 

 narrow costae, the third (originating from the outside of 

 the shoulders) is less distinct; along the sides are three 



1) Notes Leyd. Mus. Vol. XV]I, p. 207. 



Notes from the Leyden üMuseiim, "Vol. XIX. 



