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tooth ; beyond this tooth the branches are horizontal ; seen from 

 above, the branches diverge regularly from the base and are 

 arcuate in the apical half ; beyond the middle there is a short 

 sharp tooth on the inner margin. $ unknown. 



Length of body 11 mm. 



„ forceps 7 ,, 



Bhutan : Maria Basti. 

 T)jpe in Madrid. 



127. Timomenus nevilli, Burr* (Fig. 71.) 



Opisthocosmia nevilli, Bun; (04) pp. 305 & 309, (08^) p. 117. 

 Eparchus nevilli, Burr, (07^) p. 121. 



Size medium or large ; build slender and elongate ; colour 

 varying from deep brown to rich brilliant shining greenish blacii. 

 Antennae with 12 segments, brown or black, elongate and 

 cylindrical, the fourth almost as long as the third. Head tumid, 

 shining, brown or black, with a green lustre ; sutures not very 

 distinct. Pronotum brown or shining black, with a green lusti'e, 

 about as broad as long, anterior margin truncate, rounded pos- 

 teriorly ; prozona tumid, metazona flat, sharply distinct ; median 

 suture distinct. Sternal plates rather broad ; lobe of metasternum 

 quite short, rectangular, transverse. Elytra ample, well rounded 

 at the shoulders, smooth, reddish brown, not shining, with no 

 costal keel, smooth, rather short and broad, truncate posteriorly. 

 Wings prominent, shining, greenish black, with an orange spot at 

 the apex of the suture. Anterior femora short and thick ; 

 posterior pair rather long and slender ; tibiae proportionate to the 

 femora, smooth above ; tarsi short ; first segment rather thick, 

 about as long as the third ; second segment very broad. Abdomeu 

 dark brown, with a green metallic lustre ; finely punctulate, lateral 

 tubercles distinct ; sides of segments four to nine convex, produced 

 into a short depressed obtuse triangular tubercle ; in 5 simple. 

 Last dorsal segment of <^ transverse, sloping, slightly narrower 

 posteriorly than anteriorly, smooth, posterior margin straight, 

 tumid over the roots of the forceps ; narrower and more strongly 

 sloping in the $ . Penultimate ventral segment of 6 broadly 

 rounded ; of 2 a little less broad. Pygidium indistinct in 

 both sexes. Forceps of d* with the branches subcontiguous 

 at the base and cylindrical, rather slender, very long, horizontal, 

 almost straight, gently curved in at the apex ; the inner 

 margin is denticulate in the basal quarter, at the end of which 

 there is on the upper margin a sharp compressed triangular tooth ; 

 about two-thirds from the base there is a short sharp tooth on 

 the inner margin ; in the 5 the branches are nearly straight, sub- 

 contiguous, simple, cylindrical, elongate, and denticulate all along 

 the inner margin. 



