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Description of two new species of TEBMITES from Texas. 

 BY S. B. BUCKLKY. 



Termks (Eutermes) cinereus n. sp. — Abdomen and upper surface 

 of the thorax cinereus with lighter and darker shades ; head of the na- 

 suti brownish-black and of the worker yellowish-brown ; antennae light 

 brown, legs and the under surfece of the head and thorax pale yellow. 



Worker. Head oval, anteriorly slightly narrowed, with a circular and 

 somewhat convex elevation in front; epistoma a little convex, sloping to- 

 wards the front edge which is semicircular; vertex depressed, somewhat 

 smooth; occiput rounded and projecting over the prothorax; antennae 15- 

 jointed, hairy, clavate, shorter than the head, first joint cylindrical and 

 longer than the second, third still shorter and the remainder about the 

 length of the second, being shaped like truncated cones with their bases 

 forward, apical joints egg-shaped; eyes a little convex, large, brownish- 

 black and placed on the front sides above and anterior to the base of the 

 antennae; mandibles not projecting beyond the epistoma, dark brown, 

 somewhat triangular, a little curved at the apex, at and near which are 

 two strong teeth, a third small tooth is near the middle of the inner mar- 

 gin, outer margin curved, under surface of the head flat with a slight si- 

 nus extending from the mentam backwards, mentum emarginate in front, 

 ligula four parted, the two inner segments nearly double the size of the 

 two outer, all obtuse, with a few scattering hairs, palpi clavate, geniculate, 

 trochanter, femur and tibia smooth, tarsi clothed with rigid hairs; pro- 

 thorax semicircular and raised above the meso- and metathorax and nar- 

 rower than either the head or abdomen, mesothorax longer than the pro- 

 thorax, semicircular; abdomen egg-shaped, proportionably large, somewhat 

 flat above, under surface and near, the anus hairy; appendices abdominal 

 and anal wanting. Length 0.14, head O.Ol, abddlnen 0.07 inch. 



Nasud. Antennae 9-jointed, basal joint twice the length of the second, 

 remaining joints nearly equal, egg-shaped and slightly hairy; head smooth? 

 somewhat pyrifoi-m, constricted a little in front of the middle, backhead 

 rounded and projecting backwards over the thorax ; fronthead. anterior to 

 the constriction, nearly one half smaller than the portion back of it, and 

 raised around the middle, sloping gradually front and backwards; the up- 

 per anterior portion prolonged into a snout, below the base of which the 

 front is compressed at the sides about one-third of the distance back to- 



