ART. 6. NEW SPECIES OF TERMITES SNYDER. 33 



AMITERMES WHEELERI Desneux. 



^Yinged adult (pi. 1, fig. 9.) — Head dark brown to blackish, slightly- 

 longer than broad, rounded posteriorly, with dense, fairly long, light 

 yellow hairs. Fontanelle white, prominent but not as large as an 

 ocellus, elongate, wider at base (trowel-shaped), base on a line con- 

 necting eyes posteriorly. 



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

 become longer, broader, and more clavate toward apex, pubescent; 

 first segment elongate, cylindrical; second shorter and narrower 

 than first; third shorter than second, rmg-like to slightly clavate; 

 fourth longer than third, clavate; last segment elongate and sub- 

 elliptical. 



Eye black, nearly round, projecting, separated from the lateral 

 margin of the head by a distance equal to less than half a diameter. 

 Ocellus promment, elongate, deeply inset, with projecting rim, sepa- 

 rated from eye by a distance less than its short diameter. 



Labrum yellowish, longer than broad, broadest at middle, broadyy 

 rounded at apex, with long hairs. 



Post-clypeus pale yellow-brown, bulging, bilobed, posterior margin 

 concave, over twice as wide as long. 



Pronotum approximately the same color as the head, broadest 

 anteriorly, not twice as broad as long, anterior margin nearly straight, 

 to slightly convex, anterior corners rounded and slightly raised (ele- 

 vated), sides gradually taper toward posterior, posterior margin 

 slightly emarginate; pronotum with long hairs. 



Meso- and metanota lighter colored than pronotum, emarginate 

 at acute angles posteriorly. 



Legs yellow-brown, tarsi lighter. 



Wings white, costal veins yellow-brown, membrane punctate, mar- 

 gins ciliate; median vein near cubitus branched in fore wing before 

 reachmg apex, cubitus with about 8 branches in fore wing, 10 m hind 

 wmg (pi. 4, figs. 27-28). 



Wing scale is slightly shorter in length than the pronotum; with 

 hairs. 



Abdomen with dorsum lighter colored than pronotum, ventrally 

 paler, with dense, fairly long, light yellow hairs. 



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

 entire dealated adult, 6.25 mm.; length of head (to tip of labrum), 

 0.905 mm.; length of pronotum, 0.4 mm.; length of hind tibia, 0.6 

 mm.; length of anterior wing, 6 mm.; length of wing scale, 0.307 mm.; 

 width of head (at eyes), 0.805 mxn.; diameter of eye, 0.101-0.106 

 mm.; width of pronotum, 0.701 mm. 



This termite is more slender than is Amitermes tiibiformans Buck- 

 ley, the fontanelle is narrower, and the wings are not as long in 

 proportion to the length as m tubiformans. 



