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third longer, clavate, slender at base, chitin more deeply colored ; 

 fourth not quite as long as second and not much broader ; fifth longer ; 

 last segment long and slender, sub-ovate; segments become })roader 

 toward apex. 



Pronotum broader than head, lighter colored, pronotum not as 

 long as the wing scale, lateral margins at base rounded moi'e than in 

 brevis, less parallel, longer and wider than in hrev/'s. Pronotum 

 widest at apex ; in hrevis widest in center. 



Wings with costal veins golden yellowish-brown, not as broad as 

 in hrevis; in the forewing the median vein is bent up to the subcosta 

 beyond the middle of the wing touching at approximately the second 

 branch of the radial sector; radial sector with 5 branches to the 

 costa ; cubitus with numerous branches (12) , branched to apex slightly 

 beyond middle. 



Abdomen same color as pronotum, paler on ventral surface, with 

 scattered but fairly long pubescence, less stout than in (hullei/i. 



Legs paler than pronotum, tibiae somewhat darker. 



Measurevients. 



Length of entire winged adult: 9.75-10 mm. 

 Length of entire d'.iiliited adult: 4.5-G mm. 

 Length of head : 1.80 mm. 

 Ijength of pronotum : 0.70 mm. 

 Length of hind tibia : 0.807 mm. 

 Length of anterior wing: 6.50 mm. 

 Width of head (at eyes) : 1.00 mm. 

 Diameter of eye (long diameter) : 0.300 mm. 

 Width of pronotum: ? (curled down). 

 Width of anterior wing : 1.90 mm. 



Soldier (pi. 2, figs. 5 to 9). — Front of head and mandibles black 

 (mandibles with reddish tinge), remainder of head shading respec- 

 tively from reddish, anteriorly, to light yellowish-brown, posteriorly. 

 Head elongate, not tuberculate as in C. hrevh Walker although edge 

 of ridge is roughened; head and mandibles longer than in hrevis. 

 Scattered, erect hairs on surface of head. Small, oblique, oval eye spot 

 back of antenna plainly visible. 



Antenna very pale except first 3 segments which have the chitin 

 colored; 13 segments, pubescent; first segment elongate, cylindrical; 

 second clavate, shorter than first ; third shorter than second, narrower, 

 clavate; fourth broader than third but shorter; segments increase in 

 width to last segment which is slender, elongate, oval. 



Mandibles visible from above, with marginal teeth ; mandibles more 

 slender than in hrevis. 



Pronotum dark in front, broader than long but not nearly twice as 

 broad as long; deeply angularly emarginate anteriorly, borders 

 coarsely serrate in front, long hairs on sides, short erect hairs on sur- 



