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 Head spherical; antennae 15- or 16-jointed, second joint longer 



than third, fourth joint ring-shaped; clypeus trapezoidal, an- 

 terior border straight, boundary between anteclypeus and 

 postclypeus indistinct; pronotum much narrower than head, 

 semilunar. 



Measurements of the worker. 



mm. 



Length of body 4.50 



Width of head 1.15 



Width of pronotum 1.00 



Distribution. — South China (Foochow and Amoy) ; Formosa; 

 Kotosho (Botel Tobago Island) ; Riu Kiu Islands; Shikoku; Kiu- 

 shiu; southern part of Honshu, chiefly the coasts along the 

 Inland Sea. 



Subfamily LEUCOTERMITIN^E Holmgren 



Genus LEITCOTERMES Silvestri 



Leucotermes (Reticuliterm.es) flaviceps Oshima. 



Termes (Leucotermes) ftavipes Oshima, Rep. Term. 1 (1909) 30, pi. 



1, figs. 4-8; Zool. Mag. Tokyo 22 (1909) 345. 

 Leucotermes flavipes Shiraki, Trans. Ent. Soc. Jap. (1909) 231; 



Oshima, Rep. Term. 2 (1911) 3; Nawa, Insect World 15 (1911) 14. 

 Leucotermes flaviceps Oshima, Rep. Term. 3 (1912) 74, pi. 1, fig. 



10; pi. 2, figs. 15-17; Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 8 (1913) 277. 

 Leucotermes (Reticulitermes) flaviceps Oshima, Rep. Term. 4 (1914) 



2. 



Imago. — Head chestnut brown, antennae and abdomen some- 

 what darker ; pronotum yellow ; mesonotum and metanotum dark 

 brown; femur dark; tibia and tarsus yellow; head, thorax, and 

 abdomen densely covered with hairs. 



Head quadrate, posterior border rounded; clypeus yellow, 

 nearly twice as broad as long, slightly swollen, boundary between 

 anteclypeus and postclypeus indistinct; labrum tongue-shaped, 

 as long as broad ; eyes rather small ; ocellus separated from eye 

 by a distance equal to its diameter; antennae very long, nearly 

 twice as long as length of head, 17-jointed, second joint as long 

 as fourth, third joint smallest, shorter than second; pronotum 

 narrower than head, semilunar, anterior border nearly straight, 

 posterior border rounded, weakly incurved at middle; posterior 

 border of mesonotum and metanotum rounded; wing stumps 

 subequal, the anterior scarcely covering base of posterior ; wings 

 fuscous, with brownish costal margin; radius nerve of anterior 

 wings near and parallel to costal not branched; median nerve 

 midway between radius and cubitus, connected with the former 



