APOÖONIA PURPURASCENS. 159 



NOTE XII. 



DESCRIPTION Of A NEW AFRICAN SPECIES OF 

 THE MELOLONTHID GENUS APOGONIA 



BY 



C. RITSEMA Cz. 



Aijogonia imrpnrascens^ n. sp. 9- 



Closely allied to A. sulcata Kolbe '), but at once distin- 

 guished by its strong metallic colour {sulcata is deep black), 

 more robust shape and only slightly emarginate front 

 margin of the clypeus (in sulcata the clypeus is deeply 

 emarginate in both sexes). 



Length 1 1 mm. — Above glabrous, very shining, bright 

 metallic purplish with metallic green tinges; beneath the 

 metallic hue is less distinct, especially on the presternum 

 and sides of metasternum; the legs black, the tarsi dark 

 pitchy with rufous hairs; the punctures on the under 

 surface of the body and on the legs with a minute decum- 

 bent white hair. Antennae, palpi and claws dark rufous. 



The clypeus is very distinctly and rather densely punc- 

 tured, broadly but not deeply emarginate anteriorly, the 

 sides are convergent in faintly convex lines, angular out- 

 wards from the eyes, the lateral front angles subangular 

 and narrowly turned upwards. The face is punctured about 

 in the same way as the clypeus, if not somewhat finer 

 towards the vertex; the suture between the face and the 

 clypeus is obsolete in the middle. 



The prothorax is regularly convex, covered with a fine 



1) Enloni. NachiichleD, Jahrg. XXV (1899), p. 46. 



Notes frona the Leyclen Museum, ~%^ol. XXXV. 



