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Hagen. {A. ater has the mandibles fairl}^ long, but also not as long 

 as in fuinosus.) Eyes black, large, nearly round, not as projecting 

 as in atev^ very near lower margin of head, separated from both 

 anterior or posterior margin of head by a distance less than an eye 

 diameter. Ocellus large, elongate, deeply inset (with projecting 

 upper rim), separated from the compound eye by a distance less than 

 its short diameter, set obliquely to eye. 



.Vntennae yellow-brown, slender, 15 segments, pubescent ; first 

 segment long, stout, cylindrical; second shorter, subclavate; third 

 very short ; fourth longer but shorter than second ; last segment slen- 

 der, subovate. 



Pronotum yellow-brown, somewhat broader than long, not broader 

 than head, broadest at anterior margin, anterior and posterior mar- 

 gins straight, lateral margins angularly, posteriorly sloping, dark 

 brown markings on anterior area, long pubescence on lateral margins. 

 Meso- and meta-notum dark brown, with long pubescence, emargi- 

 nate on posterior margins. 



Wing dark, ciliate on margin, 8.5 mm. long, median usually 

 branching at apex, to 3 branches, cubitus (submedian) with 9-11 

 branches, median nearer to cubitus than to costal veins (pi. 5, fig. 22). 

 Abdomen with tergites dark brow^n, with dense, short and long, 

 golden-yellow pubescence, less broad than in atei\ not so stout. 

 Legs yellow-brown, slender, fairly elongate. 

 Measurements. 



Length of entire winged adult : 9.5-11 mm. 

 , Lengtli of entire deJilated adult : 5..5-6.5 mm. 

 Length of head (to tip labrum) : 0.90-1.0 mm. 

 Length of pronotum : 0.402-0.500 mm. 

 Length of hind tibia : 0.800 mm. 

 Length of anterior wing: 10.5 mm. 

 Length of wing scale: 0.500 mm. 

 Width of head (at eyes) : 0.G5-0.75 ram. 

 Diameter of eye: 0.202-0.207 mm. 

 AVidth of pronotum: 0.65+mm. (curled down). 

 Width of anterior wing: 2.65 mm. 

 A lighter colored, shorter species than ^4, ater. 

 Type locality. — Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama. 



Described from a large series of v/inged adults, collected at the 

 type locality by H. F. Dietz, April 19, 1919, in outer wall of wasps' 

 nest on royal palm tree; Dietz Ace. No. G. 475«, Hopk. U. S. No. 

 14124h ; -winged adults were also collected at Panama City, Panama, 

 by H. F. Dietz and I. Molino, on April 19, 1919, at lights in houses. 

 Type., winged male adult. — Cat. No. 24573, U.S.N. M. 



ANOPLOTERMES MANNI, new species. 



'Worker. — Head and thorax white with tinge of yellow. Head 

 longer than broad, broadest where antennae are attached and tapers 



