2 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL, MUSEUM. vol. 64, 



of the United States National Museum until my attention was called 

 to the differences by A. Emerson. Specimens from Venezuela and 

 Brazil in the Hagen collection are also large-eyed; they are referred 

 to by Hagen ^; Hagen writes that Burmeister's type agrees with 

 these specimens from southern Brazil (St. Leopoldo), collected by 

 Winthem. Soldiers have been correlated with the winged adults of 

 both angustoculus and castaneus. The winged adults of N. castaneus 

 collected by Appun at Porto Cabello, in Venezuela, in the Hagen 

 collection form the basis for Hagen's redescription (1858) ; the long 

 diameter of the eye of these specimens is 0.60 mm.; the specimens 

 collected in Brazil by Winthem have an eye diameter of 0.65. A 

 soldier from Brazil in the Hagen collection is labeled by Hagen 

 castaneus ? ; it is from the Nuremburg Museum and has short mandibles 

 (less than the width of the head) , as do specimens from Florida. 



Hagen also has winged adults of a variety, & = cubana (label on 

 specimens) in his collection under the species N. castaneus; he 

 referred to these specimens in 1858 (p. 41) but did not publish the 

 name; this variety is a small (13 mm. in length), small-eyed form 

 (eye 0.45 mm. in diameter), collected by Gundlach in 1864. N. 

 angustoculus from southern Florida and Cuba has an eye diameter of 

 0.35 mm. A dealated adult of N. castaneus in the Hagen collection 

 from St. Thomas, collected by Uhler, has an eye diameter of 0.70 mm. 



Winged adults of another variety, b = cJiilensis (label on specimens) 

 from Chile referred to by Hagen 1858 (p. 41) but the name not 

 published, is 17 mm. in length and has an eye diameter of 0.45 mm. 

 It is remarkable in that the pulvillus is not visible. This may be 

 Blanchard's species Termes cJiilensis; however, Hagen 1858 (p. 41) 

 refers to both this variety of iV. castaneus and (p. 103) to Termes 

 cJiilensis (Gay) Blanchard as occurring in Chile, stating that he 

 believes, instead of cJiilensis being in synonomy with Porotermes 

 quadricollis Rambur, it is a closely related species to " Calotermes 

 castaneus."^ Blanchard's figure of Termes cJiilensis shows wing 

 venation differing from that of Hagen's specimens of N. castaneus, 

 var. b. cJiilensis, but the figures of both the winged adult and soldier 

 are very poor. Blanchard's type of T. cJiilensis is in the Museum of 

 Paris and, until I can examine this type, I shall consider Hagen's 

 var. cJiilensis Blanchard's species. 



The termite Kalotermes approximatus Snyder, described from 

 Ortega, Fla., in 1920, is described more fully with detailed measure- 

 ments and also figured. 



In addition, there is a general discussion of the genus Leucotermes, 

 its systematic position, and its genotype L. tenuis Hagen; keys have 



'Linngea Entomologlca, vol. 12, pp. 40-41, 1858. 



»Desneux (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 49, 1905, pp. 336-8) has redescrlbed the type and states that he 

 believes it is near C. castaneus Burmeister and is not a Porotermes. 



