14 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 61. 



Wing long; as usual, iridescent and hyaline, the costal veins yel- 

 lowish-brown; wing not as broad as in C. hrevis (pi. 5, fig. 20) ; in 

 forewing the median is bent up to subcosta, beyond the middle of the 

 wing (touching at about the fourth branch of the radial sector), ra- 

 dial sector with numerous branches to the costa (at least six). The 

 cubitus runs out nearly straight toward tip of the wing (pi. 5, 

 fig. 17). 



Measurements. 



Length of entire winged adult : 11.5-12 mm. 



Length of entire dejilated adult : 5+ mm. 



Length of head : 1.45 mm. 



Length of pronotum : 0.70 mm. 



Length of hind tibia : 0.607 mm. 



Length of anterior wing: 6.75 mm. 



Width of head : 1.15 mm. 



Diameter of eye: 0.207-0.300 mm. 



Width of pronotum: ? (curled dowTi). 



Width of anterior wing : 2.10 mm. 



Soldier caste unknown. 



Close to C. hrevis., but larger and lighter colored; the other spe- 

 cific characters are in head, thorax and wings. Type compared with 

 a winged adult from Brazil, determined by Hagen, now in the collec- 

 tion of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachu- 

 setts. 



At the sugestion of Doctor Martini, this species is named in honor 

 of Doctor Rospigliosi, Director of the Museum of Natural History of 

 Lima, Peru. 



Type locality. — Lima, Peru. 



Described from three winged adults, collected at the type locality 

 (near Lima, Peru) by Dr. Ezekiel A. Martini (No. 20), March 4, 

 1918. Hopk. U. S. No. 15278. 



Type., winged 7nale adult.— Cot. No. 24567, U.S.N.M. 



CRYPTOTERMES PICEATUS, new species. 



Winged adult. — Head castaneous-brown (piceous), darker colored 

 than in Cryptotermes hrevis Walker, quadrangular, longer than 

 broad, rounded at base, lateral margins of head approximately par- 

 allel; few scattered hairs on surface — fairly long. Labrum large, 

 broader than long, broadly rounded at apex with fairly long pubes- 

 cence. Compound eyes large, nearly round, separated from the 

 lower (lateral) margin of head by a distance less than their diam- 

 eter, and distant from the posterior margin of head by a distance 

 equal to over twice their diameter. Ocellus fairly large, almost 

 touching compound eye, rounded. 



Antennae paler colored than head, yellow-brown; 17? segments, 

 broken ; with fairly long pubescence ; first segment long, stout, cylin- 



