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ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 12. NIO 15. 



Measurements: Length of body witli wings 20 mm, 

 length of body withoiit wings 11 mm, length af head 2, 13 

 mm, breadth^ of head 1,92 mm, length of prothorax l,o5 mm, 

 breadth of prothorax 1,8 4 mm, length of före wings 17 mm, 

 breadth of forewings 4,8 mm, length of hindwings 16,2 

 mm, breadth of hindwings 5,2 mm, breadth of abdomen 

 2,6 mm. 



Soldier (Text Fig. 16). A near relative to the species E. 

 pyriformis Frogg. and E. magnus Frogg., but quite distinct 

 from both. 



Text Fig. 16. Shape of head of soXåieT oi Eutermes nigerrimiis'M3'6'B. n. sp. 

 a from the side, b from above. 



Head very large, broad and rounded, though not so 

 circular as in E. pyrijormis Frogg. but tapering on the sides 

 towards the long and thick snout, its greatest breadth behind 

 the middle; snout dark, very nearly black as the other parts 

 of the head (except an indistinct median lighter line) but 

 rufous at tip; palpi long and slender; antennse very long 

 and slender, fuscous, darker than in the two other species, 

 basal joint long and stout, 2nd only half so long and half 

 so broad, 3rd much longer, more than twice as long as 

 broad, 4tb generally slightly shorter and broader, 5th to 9th 

 about 2V2 so long as broad, lOth to 13th about twice as long 

 as broad, distinctly shorter than the preceding ones, apical 



* Reekoning from external margines of eyes. 



