ART. 16 NEW TERMITES FROM INDIA — SNYDER 9 



dially bilobed, without hairs in middle and not quite half its width 

 in length. Eyes black, large, projecting, close to lower margin of 

 head. Ocelli white, rather small (only 0.23 mm long; 0.29 mm long 

 in dwtans) but projecting, separated from eyes by a distance equal to 

 or longer than their long diameter. Antennae with 18 or 19 seg- 

 ments, third, fourth, and fifth subequal, second segment longer than 

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

 anterior margin medially notched, posterior margin shallowly emar- 

 ginate. A T-shaped median marking on pronotum and one ocellus- 

 like marking on each anterior corner. Mesonotum and metanotum 

 slightly lighter in color than pronotum, broadly and shallowly emar- 

 ginate posteriorly, an ocelluslike marking on each side of meso- 

 notum. Wings " smoky " with yellowish-brown costal area ; tissue 

 finely punctate, margins ciliate. In fore wing, median vein arising 

 from scale free from cubitus, running close to cubitus, and branched 

 to apex. Cubitus with 10 or 11 main subbranches to lower margin, 

 most of ^^ liich are thick. Abdominal tergites with long hairs and a 

 white suboval slanting spot on each side of each tergite. 



Meaf^urevients. — Length of entire winged adult, 27-29 mm ; length 

 of dealated adult, 13 mm ; length of head (to tip of labrum) , 2.5 mm ; 

 length of pronotum, 1.25 mm; length of fore wing, 25 mm; length of 

 hind tibia, 2.7 mm; long diameter of eye, 0.65 mm; width of head 

 (at eyes), 2.8 mm; width of pronotum, 2.4 mm; width of fore wing, 

 6.5 mm. 



Type locality. — West Almora Forest Division, United Provinces, 

 India. 



Cotypes. — Winged adults, U.S.N.M. Xo. 41104, and in Forest 

 Kesearch Institute, Dehra Dun. 



Reinarhs. — Close to T. (C.) distant Holmgren, but smaller in all 

 measurements; compared with cotype by Dr. A. E. Emerson. De- 

 scribed from a large series of winged adults collected at the type 

 locality by H. G. Champion, May, 1919, altitude 5,000 feet. 



MICROTERMES PUBESCENS, new species 



Description. — Soldier : Head yellowish white, narrowed anteriorly, 

 sloping front roughened or tuberculate, with dense hairs and scat- 

 tered longer bristles. Fontanelle nearer to front than to posterior 

 margin. Gula broad. Labrum extends to a distance two-thirds the 

 length of the mandibles, narrow elongate, tapering anteriorly, with 

 long bristles at tip. ^Mandibles castaneous-brown, darker at apex, 

 slender, curved. Antennae with 14 segments, third segment shorter 

 than second, sube(}ual to fourth, second not quite so long as third 

 plus fourth, fifth longer than third. Pronotum medially deeply in- 

 cised at an acute angle anteriorly, emarginate posteriorly. Forelegs 

 with subfossorial tibiae. Abdominal tergites with hairs and a row 

 of longer bristles at the base of each tergite. 



