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Meso- and metu-nota deeply and angularly emarginate poste- 

 riorly; in A. (A.) grandifons Snyder more broadly roimdedly 

 emarginate. 



Legs brownish, with long hairs. 



Abdomen with tergites dark castaneous-brown, with faint spiracu- 

 lar markings and dense long hairs; cerci fairly prominent. 



Measurements. — 



Length of entire deiilated male adult, 9.50 mm. 



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



Length of left mandible, O.SO mm. 



Length of pronotum, 0.75 mm. 



Length of hind tibia, l.GO mm. 



Diameter of eye (long diameter), 0.35 mm. 



Width of head (at eyes), 1.45 mm. 



Width of pronotum, 1.30 mm. 



A, {A,) howardi Snyder is close to A. {A.) grandifons Snyder 

 except for the latter's prominent fontanelle, larger pronotum and 

 more broadly and roundedly emarginate posterior of the meso- and 

 meta-nota. This termite Avas named in honor of Dr. L. O. Howard, 

 Chief of the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department of 

 Agriculture, who has published several articles on termites and has 

 ahvays been keenly interested in their biology. 



Type locality. — Rosario, Bolivia. 



Described from three deiilated male adults collected at the type 

 locality in November, 1921 by W. M. Mann. 



Type, dedlated, male adult. — Cat. No. 27666, U.S.N.M. 



ANOPLOTERMES (ANOPLOTERMES) INDISTINCTUS, new species 



Winged., male adult. — Head castaneous-brown (with reddish 

 tinge), broader than long (posterior to base of post. cly pens), with 

 dense long hairs. Fontanelle indistinct raised spot in a broad de- 

 pression on vertex of head. 



Eye black, small, nearly round, projecting, and prominent, near 

 lower margin of head. Ocellus hyaline, oblong, with projecting up- 

 per rim, sejDarated from eye by a distance less than the small diameter 

 of an ocellus. 



Post clypeus yelloAv-broAvn, projecting, bilobed, slightly over twice 

 as broad as long, with dense long hairs. 



Mandibles j'ellow to castaneous, elongate. 



Antenna yelloAV-brown, 15 segments, with long hairs; third seg- 

 ment small, ring-like, shorter and narrower than second or fourth 

 segments; fourth segment only half as long as second; segments 

 become longer and broader toward apex; last segment elongate, 

 narrow and subelliptical, pointed at apex. 



