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Labrum yellow, not much broader than long, broadly rounded at 

 apex (almost truncate), with long pubescence. 



Mandibles black, castaneous-brown at base, base stout and broad, 

 tip pointed; left mandible with two pointed marginal teeth near 

 tip, a third lower rudimentary tooth and a 

 broader "molar"; right mandible with one mar- 

 ginal pointed tooth at about the middle of man- 

 dible and another pointed tooth at base. 



Antennae yellows-brown, 15 segments, with 

 long pubescence; first segment elongate, stout, 

 cylindrical; second shorter, clavate; third casta- 

 neous-brown, clavate (slender at base), longer 

 than second but not as long as fourth and fifth 

 together, which are short and ringlike (slightly 

 wedge-shaped) ; segments narrower toward apex; 

 last segment slender and subovate. 



Gula short and much narrowed in middle 

 (fig. 3). 



Pronotum yellow to yellow-brown, anterior 

 margin deeply concave, posterior margin nearly 

 convex but with slight emargination, not broader than head, much 

 broader than long; pronotum with long hairs on lateral margins. 

 Abdomen dirty gray-white with tinge of yellow, with long hairs. 

 Legs with hind femora swollen (fig. 4), tibiae and tarsi darker. 

 Measurements. 



IQ. 3. — Neotebmes 



CONNEXnS. SOLDIEIt. 



Ventral view qv 

 k b a d , showing 

 GULA. Greatly ex- 



LABGED. 



Length of entire soldier: 10.5-11.7 mm. 

 Length of abdomen and thorax together 

 Length of head with mandibles: 



4.25-4.95 mm. 

 Length of head without mandibles: 



3.10-3.20 nun. 

 Length of left mandible: 1.65-1.70 



mm. 

 Length of pronotum : 1.25-1.45 mm. 

 Length of hind tibia : 1.3-5-1.40 mm. 

 Width of head: 2.35-2.45 mm. 

 Width of pronotum : 2.35-2.45 mm. 



5.25-6.75 mm. 



Fig. 4. — Neotebmes connexus. Sol- 

 dier. Hind femur. Greatly fji- 



LAIiGED. 



Soldier figured by D. T. Fullaway, but referred to Neotermes eas 

 taneus Burmeister.^ 



The series of soldiers upon which this description is based were 

 found on the mountains of Onhu, Honolulu, Hawaii, Swezey collec- 

 tor, May 21, 1920, Hopk. U. S. No. 14199; soldiers with deiilated 

 adults. 



Type locality. — Kauai, Territory of Hawaii. 



» The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist, October, 1920, vol. 17, No. 10, p. 297, pi. 1, 

 fig. 1. 



