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Measurements. — Length of entire soldier, 3.8 mm; length of head 

 with mandibles, 1.5 mm; length of head without mandibles (to an- 

 terior margin), 1 mm; length of left mandible, 0.6 mm; length of 

 pronotum, 0.3 mm; length of hind tibia, 0.7 mm; width of head, 

 0.8 mm: width of pronotum. 0.5 mm. 



Type locality. — Dehra Dun, United Provinces, India. 



Eolotype. — Soldier, tube 15, British Museum. 



Remarks. — More pubescent than ohesi Holmgren; no apical tooth 

 as in globicola Wasmann, where antennae have 16 or 15 segments; 

 smaller than mycophagus Desneux, also fewer segments to antennae ; 

 pronotum anteriorly strongly medially incised, whereas weakly in* 

 cised in incertoides Holmgren. 



Described from one soldier collected with workers at the type 

 locality by M. Bose, 31, VIII, 30, attacking aerial roots of Fi<ms 

 hengalensis. 



NASUTITERMES (NASUTITERMES) FLETCHERI Holmgren 



Deseription. — Winged adult: Head castaneous-brown, postclypeus 

 and antennae lighter colored. Head with dense short hairs and 

 scattered longer bristles. Fontanelle a white narrowly oval spot 

 with apex touching the lines outlining the epicranial suture at their 

 convergence. Eyes black, large, projecting, very close to lateral 

 margin of head. Ocelli large, projecting, oval, separated from eyes 

 by a distance equal to their short diameter but less than their long 

 diameter. Antennae with 15 segments, the second, third, and fourth 

 segments subequal. Pronotum yellow with short hairs and longer 

 bristles, slightly emarginate anteriorly and shallowly but broadly 

 emarginate posteriorly. Mesonotum and metanotum broadly emar- 

 ginate posteriorly. Wings grayish, margins ciliate, tissue punctate 

 and densely hairy. In fore wing, median vein weakly defined and 

 running close to cubitus, unbranched to apex; cubitus in middle of 

 wing with 10 main branches to lower margin. Fore wing scale 

 shorter than mesonotum. Abdomen with tergites brown, with dense 

 long hairs. 



Measurements. — Length of entire winged adult, 9 mm; length of 

 dealated adult, 6.5 mm; length of head to tip of labrum, 1.3 mm; 

 length of pronotum, 0.55 mm ; length of fore wing, 9 mm ; length of 

 scale, 0.6 mm; length of hind tibia, 1.3 mm; long diameter of eye, 

 0.35 mm; width of head (at eyes), 1.2 mm; width of pronotum, 

 0.9 mm; width of fore wing, 2.8 mm. 



Remarks. — Na^utitermes {N.) f.etcheri was described by Holm- 

 gren from the soldier caste; hitherto the winged adult has been 

 unknown. The winged adult of N. {N .) matagensis has a larger 

 eye. 



