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broader mesially and apparently consists of seven dorsal seg- 

 ments in the female and eight in the male; apically there is a pair 

 of short, thick, fleshy, unsegmented cerci, as thick as the basal 

 segment of the antenna, a little longer than broad, apically moder- 

 ately narrowly rounded and, like the rest of the insect, bearing 

 bristly hairs, four or five at the tip being unusually long, the apical 

 one being sometimes even as much as twice as long as the cercus 

 itself; genitalia usually concealed, in alcoholic material some males 

 have a somewhat chitinized compressed organ more or less exserted. 

 A detailed study of the genital characters was scarcely possible 

 with the material at hand. 



Entire length from front of head to tip of abdomen two mm., 

 of pronotum three-eighths mm.; of hind femora seven-twelfths 

 mm.; antennae one and one-third mm. 



Described from a total of ten specimens; one male on card 

 point, one female in alcohol and two specimens, probably male 

 nymphs, in balsam on a slide, taken by H. G. Hubbard in galleries 

 of Leucotermes flavipes Kol. at Haw Creek, Fla., on March 26, 

 1895; four males, one female and one mutilated specimen of doubt- 

 ful sex, all in spirits, taken by T. E. Snyder, at Miami Beach, Fla., 

 April 10, 1918, in galleries of a termite of a different genus and 

 species than the above. 



Type, male; allotype, female, from material taken by Snyder. 

 These two specimens are preserved in a hermetically sealed tube 

 of spirits. 



Type U. S. N. M. Cat. No. 21835. 



The above described species is related to Zorotypus 7ieotropicus 

 Silvestri from Costa Rica, but seems a little larger, and the pro- 

 portionate length of the basal segment of the antenna is different 

 and the number of setae on the lower margin of the anterior tibiae 

 appear to be greater. The description of neotropicus makes no 

 mention of the two chitinized teeth on the inferior caudal margin 

 of the posterior femora, a character present in htihhardi and one 

 scarcely likely to have been overlooked by Silvestri, and thus pre- 

 sumably not present in the Costa Rican species. 



The Order Zoraptera was established by Silvestri* for the 



*Bollet. Lab. Zool. Gen. Agr. Portici, vol. VII, p. 193-209, figs, I-XIII 

 (1913.) 



