AKT. 14 TERMITES FROM AMAZON BASIN — SNYDER 53 



Pronotimi much lighter colored than head, yellow-brown, saddle- 

 shaped, not as broad as head, nor twice as broad as long; broadly 

 semicircular, with dense long hairs. 



Mesonotum and metanotum deeply, angularly emarginate pos- 

 teriorly. 



Wings gray, costal veins golden yellow, tissue finely punctate, 

 hairy, margins ciliate. Fore wing with median vein slightly nearer 

 to cubitus than to subcostal vein, with several (3-4) branches to 

 apex of wing: cubitus does not reach apex, with 10-11 branches 

 or subbranches to lower margin of wing; occupies less than half 

 the wing area in width. 



Legs yellow with tinge of brown, with long hairs. 



Abdomen with tergites castaneous-brown, with dense long hairs. 



Measurements. — 



Length of entire winged male adult, 9.50-10.00 mm. 



Length of entire dealated adult, 5.50 mm. 



Length of head (to tip of labrum), 1.00 mm. 



Length of left mandible, 0.70 mm. 



Length of pronotum, 0.45 mm. 



Length of fore wing, 8.00 mm. 



Length of hind tibia, 0.85 mm. 



Diameter of eye (long diameter), 0.20 mm. 



Width of head (at eyes), 0.85-0.90 mm. 



Width of pronotum, 0.70 mm. 



Width of anterior wing, 2.20 mm. 



A. {A.) indistinctus Snyder is close to A. {A.) gracilis Snyder, 

 which, however, has a narrower head and larger wings. 



Type locality. — Tumupasa, Bolivia. 



Described from three male winged adults collected with workers 

 at the type locality in December with winged female adults of 

 .4. {A.) holivianus Snyder; also a dealated male adult with holiv- 

 ianus at Eosario, in March, 1922. 



Type^ winged male adult. — Cat. No. 27667, U.S.N.M. 



Other localities where A. indistinctus was collected are: 



Rosario, Bolivia, October, 1921 (winged adults and workers) ; 

 Rio Negro, Bolivia, January, 1922 (queen and workers) ; Ivon, 

 Bolivia, February, 1922 (two queens and workers) ; Ivon, Bolivia, 

 February, 1922 (queen and workers) ; Ivon, Bolivia, February, 1922 

 (queen, king, and workers) ; Rosario, Bolivia, March, 1922 (dealated 

 female adult with dealated male adult of Anoplotermes {A) holiv- 

 ianus Snyder). 



ANOPLOTERMES (ANOPLOTERMES) LINEARIS, new species 



Winged, female adult. — Head light castaneous-brown tinged with 

 gray, broader than long (posterior to base of postclypeus), with 

 dense fairly long hairs. Fontanelle hyaline subelliptical slit on 



