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and with similar pubescence as head, anterior margin shallowly 

 concave, posterior margin nearly straight. Wings hyaline, veins 

 near costal margin brown. In fore wing costa extending to over 

 half length of wing, siibcosta with 7 branches to upper margins, 

 median not branching till near apex of wing, cubitus indistinct 

 except near base, running about in middle of wing, with 14 main 

 branches to lower margin of wing; in hind wing, median vein 

 branched or biforked near base. Pulvillus present between claws. 

 Abdomen castaneous-brown, long bristles at base of each tergite. 



The eye is larger than in 

 ■fietcheri Holmgren, com- 

 pared with cotype ma- 

 terial; also larger than in 

 greeni Desneux. 



Measuremen ts. — Length 

 of entire winged adult, IG- 

 17 mm; length of entire 

 dealated adult, 7-9 mm; 

 length of head (to tip of 

 labrum), 2.3 mm; length 

 of pronotum, 1.15 mm; 

 length of fore wing, 14 

 mm ; length of wing scale, 

 1.5 mm; length of hind 

 tibia, 1.7 mm; long di- 

 ameter of eye, 0.7 mm; 

 width of head (at eyes), 

 1.9 mm ; width of pronotum, 2.15 mm ; width of fore wing, 4.5 mm. 

 Type locality: Dehra Dun, United Provinces, India. 

 Cotypes. — Winged adults, tube 10, in British Museum; Forest 

 Research Institute, Dehra Dun ; and U.S.N.M. No. 44101. 



Remarks. — Described from a small series of winged adults col- 

 lected as nymphs at the type locality and reared by J. C. M. Gard- 

 ner. " No. 1107, 13, IV, 1931 ex rotten Manglfera indica. R. R. D. 

 267, B. C. R. 116, Cage 724." Named for the collector. 



Family RHINOTERMITIDAE 



HETEROTERMES MALABARICUS, new species 

 Figure 2 



Description. — ^AVinged adult : Head yellow-brown, with den.se, 

 light yellow, long bristles and shorter hairs. Fontanelle prominent, 

 a pale, slightly raised, round spot on a line just back of eyes. An- 

 tennae yellow, usually with 14 segments, but the number ranging 

 from 13 to 16; third segment usually shorter than second, but longer 



FIG0EB 1. — Kalotermes (Neotermes) gardneri, new 

 species : a. Dorsal view of head and pronotum ; 

 b, lateral view of head. Winged adult. X 18 



