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Eleven new termites are described in this paper : Three in the fam- 

 ily Kalotermitidae, one in the family Rhinotermitidae, and seven in 

 the family Termitidae, making a total of 84 species for India. 



Drawings for the figures in this paper were made by H. B. Brad- 

 ford, of the United States Bureau of Entomology. 



Family KALOTERMITIDAE 



KALOTERMES (NEOTERMES) ANDAMANENSIS, new species 



Description. — Dealated adult: Head castaneous-brown, with fairly 

 dense long bristles; V-shaped marking on epicranial suture. Eyes 

 black, large, close to lateral margin of head. Ocellus white, large, 

 obliquely touching eye. Antennae (broken ?) with 11 segments, 

 third segment shorter than second but longer than fourth. Prono- 

 timi slightly lighter colored than head, with long bristles, anterior 

 margin shallowly concave, posterior margin slightly emarginate. 

 Pulvillus between claws. Abdomen with tergites yellow-brown and 

 with row of bristles. 



Measwements. — ^Length of dealated adult, 7.5 mm ; lengih of head 

 (to tip of labrum), 1.9 mm; length of pronotum, 1 mm; length o,f 

 hind tibia, 1.3 mm; long diameter of eye, 0.5 nmi; width of head, 

 1.65 mm; width of pronotum, 1.7 mm. 



Type locality. — North Andaman Island. 



Holotype. — Dealated female adult, tube 19, British Museum; 

 morphotype, apterous male, Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, 

 United Provinces, India. 



Remarks. — Close to Kalotermes (N.) greeni Desneux of Ceylon, 

 but smaller and pronotum less emarginate. 



Described from a single dealated female adult collected with 

 nymphs and an apterous male at the type locality "ex unknown 

 wood," by C. E. C. Beeson, 4 to 12, III, 30. 



Apterous male reproductive adult of a yellow-brown; eye spots 

 white and smaller than in the macropterous adult and the ocelli 

 farther from the eyes. 



KALOTERMES (NEOTERMES) BOSEI. new species 



Description. — Soldier: Head light castaneous-brown, with scat- 

 tered very long bristles and short hairs. Eye spot white, oval, large, 

 its long diameter the same length as first segment of antenna. Gula 

 very narrow at middle, about one-third as wide as width at front. 

 Antennae with 10 segments, third segment slightly modilied and 

 darker, longer than second or fourth. Mandibles black, fairly nar- 

 row and straight, slightly incurved at apex. Left mandible with two 

 pointed marginal teeth at apical third and two molars in basal third : 



