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Abdomen about same color as mesonotum, lighter ventrally, not 

 half as long as the wings (in dry pinned specimens), with dense, 

 long, light yellow hairs. 



Measurements. — Length of entire winged adult, 8.5 mm.; length of 

 entire dealated adult, 4.5 mm.; length of head, 1 mm.; length of 

 pronotum, 0.407 mm.; length of anterior wing, 6.5 mm.; width of 

 head (at eyes), 0.901 mm.; diameter of eye (long diameter), 0.207 

 mm. ; width of pronotum, 0.802 mm. ; width of anterior wing, 1.85 mm. 



This winged adult has been hitherto unknown; the specific descrip- 

 tion of Amitermes heaumonti Banks was based upon the soldier caste 

 alone. Banks believes that this may be the winged adult of 

 heaumonti.^'' However, the specimens were not found with soldiers. 



The three specimens upon which this description is based were 

 found flying at Trinidad River, Panama, on May 6, 1911, collector 

 August Busck. They are deposited in the United States National 

 Museum. 



Genus ANOPLOTERMES Fritz Miiller. 



Twenty-eight species of Anoplotermes are known; 11 are from 

 Africa and 17 are Neotropical. 



The winged adults of Nearctic, Antillean, and Central American 

 species have the fontanelle either indistinct or absent; species from 

 South America and other parts of the world have the fontanelle 

 large and prominent. The meso and metanota are elongate and the 

 posterior margin is emarginate. 



The mandibles of the winged adults in some species are very 

 elongate, which is interesting in view of the fact that the soldier 

 caste is absent in all species. Species of Anoplotermes construct 

 large mound nests in South America. 



In some species of the subgenus SpecuUtermes Wasmann the 

 workers are darkly colored and the fontanelle is large, round, and 

 prominent; the third segment of the antennae of the winged adult 

 usually is large (approximately equal to the fourth) — not small as 

 in Anoplotermes s. s. These species of SpecuUtermes live in earth 

 nests in the crotches of trees near the ground, whereas some Central 

 American species of Anoplotermes do not construct earth nests or 

 mounds. 



Twelve species of Anoplotermes have been described from America, 

 but only one species of SpecuUtermes is known. I have recently 

 examined the types of A. ater Hagen and A. fumosus Hagen at the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



A. ater, female (type No. 208, M. C. Z.), of Brazil, is a small, 

 dark-black species, with short mandibles; the eyes are prominent 



" 1918. Banks, N. The Termites of Panama and British Guiana. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 28, art. 17, New York, November (p. 664, A mitermes heaumonti described from soldier caste from specimens 

 In Beaumont collection from Panama). 



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