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Wings gray (smoky-white) , costal area yellow-brown, punctate, 

 ciliate. Fore and hind wing with but few hairs on their surfaces; 

 more hairs on hind wing. In fore wing median vein intermediate 

 between subcosta and cubitus, but slightly nearer cubitus; median 

 unbranched or doubly branched to apex of wing; cubitus with 9-11 

 branches or sub-branches, variably does not or does reach apex of 

 wing. Area of cubitus takes up less than half breadth of wing. 



Abdomen dorsally yellow-brown, apex ventxally golden-yellow; 

 with dense, light yellow, long and short hairs. 



Measurements. — Length of entire winged adult, 10 mm.; length 

 of entire dealated adult, 4.25-5.25 mm.; length of head (to tip of 

 labrum), 1.35 mm.; length of pronotum, 0.50-0.55 mm.; length of 

 hind tibia, 0.80-0.802 mm.; length of anterior wing, 7.75 mm.; 

 length of anterior wing scale, 0.8 mm.; width of head, 0.86-0.90 mm.; 

 diameter of eye (long diameter), 0.17-0.20 mm.; width of pronotum 

 (at anterior corners) , 0.7-0.8 mm. ; width of anterior wing, 2-2.05 mm. 



Close to L. convexinotatus Snyder but of lighter color, eyes further 

 separated from lateral margin of head, ocelli nearer to eyes, and 

 surface of wing not so hairy, etc. 



This termite was described from dealated adults as Reticulitermes 

 aureus by Snyder (1920).^^ It is now redescribed from a series of 

 winged adults from the type locality; these adults were collected on 

 August 9, 1920, at a light at 7.30 o'clock in the evening, after a 

 thunderstorm. 



Type locality. — Sabino Canyon, Santa Catalina Mountains 

 Arizona. 



Type, dealated adult.— Cat. No. 22693, U.S.N.M. 



LEUCOTERMES LONGICEPS, new species. 



Soldier. — Head light yellowish-brown, slender, very elongate, 

 over twice as long as broad, sides slightly concave at center, with but 

 few scattered long hairs. 



Antennae white with tinge of yellow, 17 segments, segments 

 become broader toward apex, pubescent; third segment subclavate, 

 shorter than second or fourth segments. 



Labrum light yellow, pointed at apex, where long hairs, broadest 

 in middle. 



Mandibles dark castaneous brown to black, slender, curved in at 

 tips. 



Gula slender, elongate, twice as broad at front as at middle. 



Pronotum white with tinge of yellow, subcordate, with long hairs, 

 anterior and posterior margins emarginate; sides roundedly narrowed 

 to posterior. 



" 1920. Snyder, T. E. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 39-40, February. 



