NEUKOPTEKA 



OF 



NORTH AMERICA 



SECTION I. PSEUDONEUKOPTERA. 



FAM. I. TERMITLNA. 



Body depressed, ovate; head free; wings equal, mem- 

 branaceous, deciduous ; tarsi 4-articulate. 



CALOTERMES HAGEN. 



Head small, two ocelli ; prothorax large, transverse, oblong ; 

 costal area veined ; tarsi furnished with an apical plautula. 



1. C. castaneus ! 



Termes castaneus Burm. ! II. 764, 3. Term.es anticus Walk.! Catal. 523, 

 31. Termes guatimalce Walk.! Catal. 528, 38. Caloterm. castaneus 

 Hag.! Linn. XII, 38, 1 ; tab. ii, fig. 2 ; tab. iii, fig. 2. 



Chestnut-color, beneath, antenna? and feet luteous ; the wings 

 tinged with brown, margin and costal veins infuscate ; head ellip- 

 tical ; prothorax quadrangular, anteriorly a little sinuated; median 

 nervule approaching the subcostal one, its apex bifurcated. 



Var. Smaller, pale, wings hyaline. (Cuba, St. Domingo.) 



Length to tip of wings 13 20 millimetres. Length of body 

 6 8 millim. Expanse of wings 23 36 millira. 



Hob. San Francisco, California (Chamisso) ; Honduras (Miller) ; 

 Guatimala (Deby) ; Cuba; Porto-Rico; St. Domingo, Port-au- 

 Prince (Ehrenberg) ; Columbia, Venezuela (Moritz, Appun) ; 

 -Brazil (Olfers) ; Pvio (Schott) ; St. Leopoldo ; Chile; Isle of 

 France (?). Collection of de Selys Longchamps. 



NOTE. An exclamation point after the specific name at the head of an 

 article shows that the description has been made by the author from a spe- 

 cimen. When placed after a reference, it shows that the author has seen 

 the type of the description. 

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