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Claude Fuller 



Macrohodotermes mossamhicus sub.sp. pulcher. 



= Hodotermes pulcher Sjost. (1905). 



Although, as I have shown, pulcher imagos intergrade with 

 those of other forms, here linked up under the subspecific name 

 transvaalemis, it is sufficiently removed therefrom and from mos- 

 samhicus s.str., to hold subspecific rank. According to Sjostedt 

 the types were obtained in the Orange Free State. I place with 

 pulcher a series of imagos captured at Knapdaar in the Cape Pro- 

 vince, The following are measurements from the Knapdaar 

 series : 



Macrohodotermes mossamhicus sub.sp. transvaalensis. 

 = Hodotermes transvaalensis Fuller (1915). 

 = „ pretoriensis „ ,» 



= „ Tvarreni 



=5 „ hraini 



= „ mossamhicus Hagen, Silvestri (1908). 



= „ ,, Hagen (1858) (in part, soldier nee 



imago). 



Under the one subspecific name transvaalensis I propose to 

 bring together a number of series which, in the broad characters 

 of the imagos so far found, agree with mossamhicus s.str. but 

 vary in their size and wdng measurements so that their dimensions 

 are both greater and smaller than those of mossamhicus s.str. 



As with the imagos so with the soldiers there is much variation, 

 but the more this is studied the more the soldiers from one locality 

 merge into those from another. However, all seem to agree as 

 regards the general nature of the thorax and in the features of 

 this to differ from the sub-species havilandi and from karrooensis 

 mihi. 



