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VOL. 82 



Cotypes. — ^Winged adults; comorphotypes, soldiers, tube 13, in 

 British Museum; Forest Eesearch Institute, Dehra Dun, United 

 Provinces, India ; and U.S.N.M. No. 44102. 



Remarks. — Described from a large series of winged adults 

 collected at the type locality with soldiers and workers, by 



J. C. M. Gardner, 25, V. 

 1930. 



Family TERMITIDAE 



TERMES (TERMES) DEHRADUNI. 



new species 



Fic.rRE 3 



Description. — 'SV i n g e d 

 adult : Head castaneous- 

 brown, with fairly dense 

 short and long hairs. 

 Fontanelle a raised coni- 

 cal point, in front of 

 which is a small suboval 

 raised spot. Postclypeus 

 yellow-brown, projecting, 

 bilobed, without hairs in 

 middle, less than half its 

 width in length. Eyes 

 black, large, projecting, 

 close to lower margin of 

 head. Ocelli white, large, 

 projecting, close to eyes. 

 Antennae with 19 seg- 

 ments, third, fourth, and 

 fifth segments subequal, 

 second segment longer 

 than third. Pronotum lighter colored than head, with long hairs, 

 anterior margin medially notched, posterior margin nearly straight. 

 T-shaped median marking on pronotum and one ocelluslike marking 

 on each corner anteriorly. Mesonotum and metanotum broadly and 

 shallowly emarginate posteriorly. Wings light colored, with yellow- 

 ish costal area ; tissue finely punctate, not hairy, margins ciliate. In 

 fore wing, median branching from cubitus and closer to cubitus than 

 to subcostal vein, branched to apex; cubitus occupying most of wing 

 area. Abdominal tergites with long hairs and a white, suboval, 

 slanting marking on each side of each tergite. 



FiGL'RE 3. — Termes (Termes) dehraduni, new spe- 

 cies : a. Dorsal view of head, pronotum, meso- 

 notum, and metanotum'; b, lateral view of head. 

 Winged adult. X 18 



