TERMES. TERMES. 
Generic Character. 
Pedes sex, cursorii. 
Legs six, formed for run- 
Oculi duo. 
Antennce setacese. 
Os maxillis duabus. 
ning. 
Eyes two. 
Antenna setaceous. 
Month furnished with two 
jaws. 
Fro M the observations of Degeer, and the 
more recent ones of Mr. Smeathman, recorded in 
the Philosophical Transactions, it appears that 
the males and females of the genus Termes are, 
in their complete state, furnished with wings, 
though the labourers or neuters are destitute of 
those organs. The genus might therefore, in 
strict propriety, rather claim a place in the order 
Neuroptera than in that of Aptera, in which it is 
stationed by Linnaeus. 
The European species of Termes are very 
small, compared with those of the warmer regions 
of Africa and America, and, instead of assembling 
in multitudes, as in those climates, are usually 
observed single. The most common of these is 
the Termes piUsatorius of Linnaeus, a diminutive 
insect, of a whitish colour, and which, from its 
