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vertex of head. Postclypeus yellow brown, bilobed, projecting, 

 three times as broad as long. 



Eye black, not round, relatively large and projecting, close to 

 lateral margin of head. Ocellus hyaline, oblong, with projecting 

 upper rim, relatively large, at oblique angle to and almost touching 

 eye. 



Antenna light yellow-brown, 14r-15 segments, becoming longer 

 and broader toward apex, with long hairs; third segment short 

 narrow and ring-like, shorter than second or fourth ; fourth shorter 

 than second segment; last segment elongate, slender and subelliptical. 



Mandibles yellow, apex light castaneous, short. 



Pronotum yelloAv-brown, tinged with gra}', saddle-shaped, sub- 

 cordate, with long hairs. 



Meso- and meta-nota deeply and roundedly emarginate. 



Wings cloudy gray, costal area yellow-brown, margin ciliate, sur- 

 face punctate, with hairs. In forewing median vein close to cubitus, 

 branches (2-3 times) to apex; cubitus with 8-9 branches or sub- 

 branches to lower margin of wing. 



Legs white tinged w^ith yellow, with long hairs. 



Abdomen with tergites light castaneous brown, tinged with gray, 

 with spiracular markings and dense fairly long hair; cerci fairly 

 prominent. 



Measurements. — 



Length of entire winged adult, 7.00 mm. 

 Length of entire deJilated adult, 4.80-5.20 mm. 

 Length of head (to tip of labrum). 0.85 mm. 

 Length of loft mandible, 0.31 mm. 

 Length of pronotum, 0.35 mm. 

 Length of hind tibia, 0.55 mm. 

 Length of anterior wing, 0.00 mm. 

 Diameter of eye (long diameter), 0.175 mm. 

 Width of head (at eyes), O.GO mm. 

 Width of pronotum, 0.46 mm. 

 Width of anterior wing, 1.80 mm. 



A. {A.) linearis Snyder is the most slender species of Anoplo- 

 termes known to the author. 



Type locality. — Tumupasa. T3olivia. 



Described from 7 male and female winged adults collected by "W. 

 M. Mann at the t3q:)e locality in December, 1921. 



Type, winged feTnale adult.— Cat. N'o. 27668, U.S.N.M. 



ANOPLOTERMES (ANOPLOTERMES) PROXIMUS, new species 



Winged, female adult. — Head castaneous-brown, broader than long 

 (posterior to base of postclypeus) , with dense long hairs. Fontanelle 

 hyaline, subelliptical slit on vertex of head. Postclypeus yellow- 



