ART. 16 NEW TERMITES FROM INDIA SNYDER 15 



colored. Compared with cotype material. Smaller than annandalei 

 Silvestri. 



Measurements. — Length of entire winged adult, 7.5-8.5 mm ; length 

 of dealated adult, 4.8-5 mm; length of head (to tip of labrum), 1.1 

 mm ; length of pronotum, 0.4^-0.45 mm ; length of fore wing, 6.25 mm ; 

 length of hind tibia, 0.85 mm ; long diameter of eye, 0.175 mm ; width 

 of head (at eyes), 0.82 mm; width of pronotum, 0.6 mm; width of 

 fore wing, 1.5 mm. 



Soldier. — Head light yellow-brown to darker, with few hairs. An- 

 tennae with 13 segments, third as in heimi. Pronotum with anterior 

 margin notched in middle, posteriorly nearly straight. Abdomen 

 with fairly dense hairs and a row of longer hairs at the base of each 

 tergite. 



Measurements. — Length of entire soldier, 4.5 mm; length of head 

 and mandibles, 2.2-2.3 mm; length of head without mandibles, 1.4- 

 1.5 mm; length of left mandible, 0.8 mm; length of pronotum, 0.3 

 mm ; length of hind tibia, 0.65 mm ; width of head, 0.9 mm ; width 

 of pronotum, 0.55 mm. 



Type locality. — Haldwani district, Kumaon, United Provinces, 

 India. 



Gotypes. — ^Winged adults, U.S.N.M. No. 44107. Comorphotypes, 

 soldiers. United States National Museum. Both cotypes and co- 

 morphotypes in British Museum and Forest Research Institute, 

 Dehra Dun, United Provinces, India. 



Retnarks. — ^Very close to heimi., darker colored, pronotum more 

 distinctly notched in middle anteriorly, gula narrower in middle; 

 soldier larger than that of greeni Holmgren. 



Described from a series of winged adults collected with soldiers, 

 workers, and 11 physogastric, macropterous queens at the type 

 locality, 14, 6, 23, by H. G. Champion, for whom this termite is 

 named. 



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