ART. 20. SOME XEW AMEEICAX TEEMITES — SNYDER. 7 



Legs pale, tibiae and tarsi darker, femora gi-eatly swollen. 

 Measurements. 



Total length of soldier (from tip of mandibles to end of abdomen) : Ap- 

 proximately 10 mm. 

 Length of head with mandibles: 5.60 mm. 

 Length of head without mandibles and labrum : 3.70 mm. 

 Length of left mandible : 1.90 mm. 

 Length of pronotum : 1.90 mm. 

 Length of hind tibia : 1.70 mm. 

 Width of head (in front) : 2.S0 mm. 



Close to K. hubhardl Banl^s, but constitutes a distinct si3ecies on 

 account of its tuberculate front of head and other divergent char- 

 acters. 



Winged adult unknown; this soldier may belong to the winged 

 adult K. montanus Snyder. 



Type locality. — " Mexico." 



Described from a single soldier in the collection of the United States 

 National Museum labeled " Mexico." 



Type, soldier.— C^t. No. 24564, U.S.N.M. 



KALOTERMES CUBANUS, new species. 



Soldier (pi. 1, fig. 2). — Head castaneous-brown, dark on anterior 

 area (especially the front), paler on posterior area; twice as long as 

 broad, about equally broad at anterior and pos- 

 terior margins, lateral margins slightly concave. 

 Postclypeus castaneous, broader than long, pos- 

 terior margin convex. Labrum yellow-brown, 

 broader than long, broadly rounded at apex, with 

 long hairs. Head with scattered but fairly long, 

 erect hairs on both dorsal and ventral surfaces. 

 Eye spot much smaller and less deeply pigmented 

 than in Kalotermes jouteli Banks, on a line with 

 and close to antennal socket. 



Mandibles black, stout, and very broad at base ; 

 left mandible with two pointed marginal teeth 

 near tip, broader tooth nearer base; right man- fig. i. — kalotebmes 

 ble with two broader and larger pointed teeth '^^^^^^^^ vi'Tof 

 below those on left mandible. Tips of mandibles head, showing gdla. 



. , , , 1 . Greatly enlarged. 



pointed and curved in. 



Antennae yellow-brown, first three segments castaneous; 17 seg- 

 ments, longer than mandibles, with long pubescence ; third segment 

 larger than second, or fourth, clavate, deeply colored; last segment 

 short, slender, and subovate. 



Gula much narrower in middle than in jouteli, the width at the 

 middle being less than half the width at the front (fig. 1). 

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