ART. 20. SOME NEW AMERICAN TERMITES — SNYDER. 27 



Described from a series of workers found with the typicaJ soklier. 



Type locality. — San Pedro, Spanish Honduras. San Pedro is in- 

 land, the terminus of the railroad from Puerto Cortes. 



Described from a series of soldiers collected at the type locality 

 by Dr. W. M. Mann, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, February-March, 1920. 



Type, soldier.— Csit No. 24575, U.S.N.M. 



CONSTRICTOTERMES (TENUIROSTRITERMES) BRICIAE, new species. 



Soldier (pi. 3, figs. 12 and 13).— Head light castaneous-brown, 

 nasus darker, except at tip, the heads of some soldiers (immature?) 

 straw colored; deeply constricted, head and nasus similar in shape 

 to C onstrictotermes incisus Snyder, but head and body longer, 

 broader, and thicker: head broadest at base, at angle to thorax. 

 Hairs and bristles on head as in C. incisus. Ventral portion of head 

 slightly lighter colored. 



Antennae yellow-brown, 13 segments, pubescent; first segment 

 long, cylindrical, stout; second short, more slender, cylindrical, less 

 than half the length of the first; third clavate, long, slender, taper- 

 ing at the base, twice the length of the second ; fourth equals second ; 

 fifth shorter than third; last segment long, slender, subovate. 



Pronotum light yellow-brown, saddle-shaped, wider than long, 

 longer than in incisus., short pubescence on anterior area and few- 

 long bristles on anterior and lateral margins. 



Meso- and meta-notum same color as pronotum. longer than in 

 incisvs. 



Doi-sum of abdomen slightly darker (grayish) : ventral surface 

 lighter colored; abdomen with long golden-yellow pubescence. 

 Legs yellowish, long and slender. 

 Measureinents. 



Lengtli of entire soldier: 3.25-.3.85 mm. 



Leugth of liead and nasus: 1.40-1.50 mm. 



Length of head without nasus : 0.7.5-1.0 mm. 



Length of nasns : 0.45CM).50 mm. 



Length of abd^mien and thorax together : 2.10-2.70 mm. 



Length of pronotum : 0.105-0.107 mm. 



Length of liind tibia : 0.808-1.10 mm. 



Width of head: 0.602-0.605 mm. 



Width of pronotum : 0.40O-0.430 mm. 



AVorli'er. — Head light castaneous-brown, broadest at base of an- 

 tennae, tapers posteriorly where rounded, longer than broad; with 

 short pubescence. Post-clypeus yellow, about twice as broad as 

 long, projecting. Labrum yellowish, broadest at middle, approxi- 

 mately same shape as in incisus., pubescent on anterior area. 



Antennae yellow to yellow-brown, longer than head, 14 segments, 

 with long pubescence ; first segment long, stout, cylindrical ; second, 



