ART. 6. NEW SPECIES OF TERMITES SNYDER. 3 



been made to include all the known American species — five in number. 

 In the past several species have been included under the name tenuis. 

 My species Reticulitermes aureus, originally described from dealated 

 adults from southern Arizona, I have found to be a Leucotermes after 

 the winged adults have been collected; I have redescribed this 

 termite. It is extremely interesting but unfortunate that a species 

 of this genus occurs in the United States; as yet this species aureus 

 is apparently confined to unsettled regions at the base of the Santa 

 Catalina Mountains and has not been found damaging the woodwork 

 of buildings or crops. 



Species in the genus Leucotermes of South, Central, and North 

 America are extremely destructive both to timber and to living 

 crops. The presence of two species of this genus, convexinotatus 

 and cardini, in the West Indies — in close proximity to the United 

 States — renders it very desirable to make a careful study of these 

 termites. Possibly they might be introduced into the southern 

 portions of the United States, where they would be very injurious. 

 Indeed, species of Leucotermes may even now be present on some 

 of the offshore Florida keys, where but little collecting of termites 

 has been done. 



A key to seven American species of Anoplotermes is given in this 

 paper. 



Thanks are gratefully rendered to Dr. S. Henshaw and N. Banks, 

 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, for courtesies and the 

 unrestricted use and examination of the Hagen collection. 



KALOTERMES MARJORIAE. new species. 



Winged adult. — Head light castaneous, darker between the eyes, 

 shining, slightly longer than broad, rounded posteriorly, with scat- 

 tered, fairly long, light yellow hairs. 



Antennae light yellow brown, first three segments darker colored 

 than the others; 18 segments, segments become longer and broader 

 toward apex, pubescent; first segment stout, cylindrical; second 

 narrower, shorter, somewhat clavate; tliird segment shorter than 

 second, clavate; fourth approximately the same size as the third 

 (first half of antennae more ring or bead-like, last haK more elongate 

 and clavate); last two segments shorter than sixteenth — possibly 

 there is a segment or two missing. 



Palpi segments short but broad, apical segment longer and coni- 

 cal — pointed at tip. 



Eye black, large, not round, separated from lateral margin of 

 head by a distance equal to less than half its long diameter. Ocellus 

 large, elongate, very close to eye, set somewhat obliquely but nearly 

 parallel to eye. 



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