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Pronotum slightly lighter colored than head, saddle-shaped, not 

 twice as broad as long, sides angularly but broadly narrowed to 

 posterior margin, with dense long and short hairs. 



JMeso- and meta-nota deeply, broadly and roundly emarginate. 



Legs yellow with tinge of brown dorsally, with long hairs. 



Abdomen with tergites dark castaneous-brown, with dense hairs; 

 cerci not prominent. 



Measurements. — 



Length of entire dealated adult, 9.00 mm. 

 Length of head (to tip of labrum), 1.60 mm. 

 Length of left mandible, 0.80 mm. 

 Length of pronotum, 0.70 mm. 

 Length of hind tibia, 1.60 mm. 

 Diameter of eye (long diameter), 0.35 mm. 

 Width of head (at eyes), 1.40 mm. 

 Width of pronotum, 1.20 mm. 



Type locality. — Rosario, Bolivia. n 



Described from a single female dealated adult collected in termite 

 hills in November, 1921, by Dr. W. M. Mann with Ano'plotei^nes 

 {A.) paciiictis Fritz Miiller. 



Type., dealated., female adult. — Cat. No. 27665, U.S.N.M. 



ANOPLOTERMES (ANOPLOTERMES) HOWARDI, new species 



Dealated., male adult. — Head dark castaneous-brown, broader than 

 long (posterior to base of postclypeus), with dense long and shorter 

 hairs. Fontanelle indistinct, a large oval plate in depression on 

 vertex of head. 



Postclypeus dark castaneous-brown, slightly lighter colored than 

 head, over twice as broad as long, bilobed, projecting with long 

 hairs. • 



Eye black, not round, large, projecting, close to lateral margin 

 of head. Ocellus hyaline, suboval, separated from eye by a dis- 

 tance equal to its short diameter, with projecting upper rim, at 

 angle to eye. 



Mandible yellow-brown, apex castaneous, elongate. 



Antenna yellow-brown, 15 segments, becoming longer and 

 broader toward apex, with long hairs; third segment ring-like, 

 narrower and much shorter than second and slightly shorter than 

 fourth segment; fourth shorter than second segment; last segment 

 elongate, slender, and subelliptical. 



Pronotum dark castaneous-brown, slightly lighter colored than 

 head, saddle-shaped, sides angularly rounded to posterior margin, 

 with long hairs, pronotum shorter than in A. grandifons Snyder and 

 sides not so broadly rounded to posterior. 



