198 FOBFICULID.E. 



Length of body ... . ll*5-15-5 mm. 10-1 2-5 mm. 



„ forceps.. 8'5-ll'5 ,, 6- 7 „ 



Bhutan : Maria Basti (Paiis 2Ius.) ; Sikkim (coll. Bolivar). 



Type in the Paris Museum. 



This is a fine species and easy to recognize by the green lustre 

 and elongate forceps ; in structure it approaches T. lugens, but 

 the lustre is green, not blue ; the female somewhat resembles that 

 of Eudolirnia metallica, but may be at once distinguished by the 

 smooth elyti'a, these organs being granulated in that species. 



A female in the Paris collection is almost entirely dull red in 

 colour, with little or none of that brilliant metallic sheen which is 

 so characteristic in all the other specimens. 



128. Timomenus lugens, Borm.* (Fig. 72.) 



Opisthocosmia lugeus, Borm. (94) p. .398, (00-) p. 98 ; Kirby, (04) 

 p. 38, nee Burr, Ann. Mag. N. H. (7) vi. p. 101 (1900) ; Burr, 

 (04) p. 305 (nee (OQi) p. 101). 



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



Size medium or lai'ge ; build slender and elongate ; colour 

 brilliant lustrous blue-black. Antennas with 13 segments, black, 

 "with two pale segments before the apex ; segments long, slender 

 and cylindrical, the fourth almost equal to the third. Head 

 tumid, sutures indistinct, lustrous blue-black. Pi'onotum lustrous 

 blue-black, slightly narrower than the head, very slightly narrower 

 than broad, anterior margin truncate, strongly rounded anteriorly ; 

 prozona tumid, sharply distinct from the depressed metazona. 

 Sternal plates rather broad ; lobe of metasternum rectangular, 

 short, transverse. Elytra ample, smooth, well rounded at the 

 shoulders, with no costal keel, broad, not very long, truncate at 

 the posterior margin, dull black. "Wings shining blue-black, with 

 a yellowish spot at the apex of the suture. Legs shining jet- 

 black ; anterior femora thick and short, posterior pair long and 

 slender; tarsi short; first segment broad and short; second very 

 broad, third as long as the first. Abdomen smooth, black with a 

 brilliant blue-black lustre ; sides of the segments, five to eight in 

 the S , convex, and produced into short, obtuse, depressed, triangular 

 lobes ; in $ simple. Last dorsal segment of S transverse, sloping, 

 posterior margin straight, tumid over the roots of the forceps. 

 Penultimate ventral segment of S rounded, broad. Pygidium 

 hidden. Forceps of S with the branches elongate, subcontiguous at 

 the base, cylindrical, gently diverging at first, then gently arcuate ; 

 points curved inwards ; seen from the side, curved gently up- 

 wards in the basal quarter, then straight ; the inner margin is 

 denticulate in the basal quarter, at the end of which on the upper 

 surface there is a strong, sharp, triangular, compressed tooth ; 



