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Measurements. — Length of entire winged adult, 22.5-23 mm; 

 length of dealated adult, 11.5 mm; length of head (to tip of 

 labrum), 2.55 mm; length of pronotum, 1.2 mm; length of fore 

 wing, 19 nnn; length of hind tibia, 2.4 mm; long diameter of eye, 

 0.5 mm; width of head (at eyes), 2.25 mm; width of pronotum, 

 2.1 mm ; width of fore wing, 7 mm. 



Soldier.— Rqh^ light yellow-brown, with scattered, fairly long 

 Jiairs. Mandibles blackish with left mandible having small rudi- 

 mentary, marginal tooth nearer to 

 its base than to apex. Gula broad 

 in middle. Antennae with 16 or 17 

 segments, second segment longer 

 than third, third longer than 

 fourth. Pronotum yellowish, 

 markedly emarginate anteriorly 

 and more broadly emarginate pos- 

 teriorly, with long hairs. Ab- 

 dominal tergites with long hairs. 

 Measyjrements. — Length of en- 

 tire soldier, 5 mm ; length of head 

 with mandibles, 2.5 mm; length 

 of head without mandibles (to 

 anterior margin), 1.7 mm; length 

 of pronotum, 0.6 mm; length of 

 hind tibia, 1.1 mm; width of 

 head, 1.3 mm ; width of pronotum, 

 0.95 mm. 



Remarhs . — This species was 

 based on the soldier caste, the 

 winged adult being hitherto un- 

 known. Described from a series 

 of winged adults collected with 

 soldiers and workers at Dehra 

 Dun, United Provinces, India, 19, 

 VII, 1928, by J. C. M. Gardner and deposited in the United States 

 National Museum and in the Forest Research Institute. 



TERMES (CYCLOTERMES) ALMORENSIS, new species 



Figure 5 



Description. — ^Winged adult : Head castaneous-brown, with dense, 

 long hairs. Fontanelle a small open ( ? ) spot with ridged edges in a 

 slightly sunken area surrounded by a lighter colored area, circular 

 in shape and larger in diameter than an ocellus but smaller than an 

 eye. Fontanelle not ( ?) elevated, with a suboval white spot in front, 

 whole area depressed. Postclypeus yellow-brown, projecting, me- 



FiGURE 5. — Termes (Gyclotermes) almo- 

 rensis, new species : a. Dorsal view of 

 head, pronotum, mcsonotum, and met- 

 anotum ; 1), lateral view of head. 

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