ART. 20. SOME NEW AMERICAN TERMITES SNYDER. 9 



NEOTERMES CONNEXUS. new species. 



Witif/ed oiclult. — Head dark castaneoiis-brown, anteriorly darker 

 than }>osteriorly, not much longer than broad, rounded at base. 

 Trace of frontal gland depression on line with posterior border of 

 compound eyes. Head with scattered but long hairs on dorsum and 

 margins. Compound eye not quite round, large, projecting, sepa- 

 rated from lower (lateral) margin of head by a distance less than 

 its diameter, scarcely two diameters from hind margin. Ocellus 

 large, elongate, set obliquely to eye, aliuost touching it. Post-clypeus 

 castaneous-brown, much broader than long. Labrum lighter colored 

 than head, elongate, constricted toward apex, nearly truncate on tip, 

 with long hairs. 



Antennae yellow-brown, 17 to 19 segments; with long pubescence; 

 first segment long, stout, subcylindrical ; second shorter but elongate 

 and clavate; third clavate, shorter than second, chitin njpre deeply 

 colored; fourth more wedge-shaped, shorter than third; fifth longer; 

 last segment slender, subovate. 



Pronotum slightly paler than head, broader, anterior margin 

 deeply concave; nearly twice as broad as long, shorter than wing 

 stub or scale, rounded posteriorly and emarginate; margins with 

 fairly dense long hairs. 



Abdomen with dorsum about same color as pronotum, ventral sur- 

 face paler: abdomen with long hairs. 

 Legs yellow-brown, tibiae darker. 



Wing much longer than entire dealated adult, radial sector with 

 5-7 long branches to costa and several short branches; cubitus with 

 17 brandies, not reaching apex (pi. 4, fig. 16). 

 Measurements. 



Length of entire winged adult : 17.5 mm. 

 Length of entire dealated adnlt : 8.0 mm. 

 Length of head : 2.00 mm. 

 Length of pronotum : 1.30 mm. 

 Length of hind tibia : 1.50 mm. 

 Length of wing : 13.5 nun. 

 Width of head (at eyes) : l-SO mm. 

 Diameter of eye (long diameter) : 0.405 mm. 

 Width of pronotum : 2.05 nun. 

 Width of wing: 4.0 mm. 

 The winged adult is allied to N. eastaneus'Buvmei^tQv. 

 Soldier. — Head shading in color from light yellow posteriorly to. 

 yellow-brown anteriorly and more castaneous at anterior margin; 

 head longer than broad, lateral margins varying from short and 

 rounded to longer and parallel, as is common in species of Kalo- 

 trrmes. Eye spot purplish, oblong, placed obliquely to side of head, 

 separated from antennal socket by distance equal to its short diam- 

 eter. Head with long scattered pubescence on the lateral margins. 



