112 TEETIARY INSECTS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Named for Dr. H. A. Hagen, the distinguished monographer of the 

 Termitina, living and fossil. 



Florissant. Seven specimens, Nos. 4629, 4652, 5224, 6030, 8250, 8616, 

 14167. 



3. Parotermes fodin^. 



PI. 12, Figs. 3, 22. 

 Parotermes fodincE Scudil., Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci., XIX, 141 (l^SS). 



Head oblong obovate, half as long again as broad, the eyes large, cir- 

 cular, about one-fifth the diameter of the head, slightly projecting beyond 

 the sides, the anterior edge near the middle of the head. Pronotum trans- 

 versely lunate, as broad as the head, less than twice as long as broad, the 

 front margin regularly and considerably concave, the hind margins and 

 sides forming one uniform strongly convex curve, the anterior lateral angles 

 rounded off. Mesonotum and metanotum obscurely preserved, but appar- 

 ently formed much as in the other species, the mesonotum being of about 

 the same width as the pronotum. Abdomen rather long and comparatively 

 slender, scarcely if at all exceeding in width the parts in front, the sides 

 being unusually parallel, the tip well rounded, the whole as long as the 

 rest of the body. Abdominal appendages very small, stout, being only a 

 little more than twice as long as broad, largest in the middle, and tapering 

 either way, the tip blunt, the whole not longer than the diameter of the 

 eye. Legs poorly and partially preserved in a single specimen, showing 

 them to be much as in P. hagenii, the hind tibia being only a little shorter 

 than the width of the mesothorax. 



Wings four times as long as broad, the middle of the front pair reach- 

 ing the tip of the abdomen ; the exact form can not be made out, but the 

 costal margin is straight until very near the tip, and the hind border appears 

 to be uniform and to make the wing slightly broadest just beyond the luid- 

 dle. The submarginal vein is unusually long, running into the costa only 

 a little before the middle of the wing. The mediastinal terminates not far 

 beyond the middle The scapular vein has five or six branches in the front 

 wing, generally five in the hind wing, the first appearing always to origi- 

 nate at the end of the basal third of the wing. The inferior nervules of 

 this vein and the course of the branches of the veins below can not be 

 determined in any of the specimens, but there are faint indications of their 



