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ANOPLOTERMES (ANOPLOTERMES) PUNCTATUS, new species 



Queen {first form). — Head dark castaneous-brown with reddish 

 tinge, broader than long (posterior to base of clypeus), with dense 

 long hairs. Fontanelle a hyaline, prominent, pear-shaped spot on 

 vertex of head. 



Eye black, nearly round, large, prominent, projecting, close to 

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

 upper rim; separated from the eye by a distance nearly equal to 

 the long diameter of an ocellus. 



Post clypeus light castaneous, projecting, bilobed, twice as broad 

 as long, with long hairs. 



Mandibles yellow to castaneous at apex, elongate. 



Antenna light yellow-brown, broken (12 segments), with long 

 hairs ; third segment short, narrow and ring-like, shorter than second 

 ot fourth segments; fourth only about half as long as second seg- 

 ment; segments become longer and broader toward apex. 



Pronotum very slightly if any lighter colored than head, saddle- 

 shaped, not as broad as head nor tw^ice as broad as long, broadly 

 semicircular, with dense, long hairs. 



Meso- and meta-nota shallowly, angularly emarginate posteriorly. 



Legs yellow with tinge of brown, with long hairs. 



Abdomen with tergites dark castaneous-brown, with dense long 

 hairs; cerci not prominent. 



Measurements. — 



Length of entire detilated adult, 6.00 mm. 

 Length of head (to tip labrum), L40 mm. 

 Length of left mandible, 0.70 mm. 

 Length of pronotum, O.GO mm. 

 Length of hind tibia, 1.40 mm. 

 Diameter of eye (long diameter), 0.27 mm. 

 "Width of head, 1.20-1.30 mm. 

 Width of pronotum, 1.00 mm. 



A. {A.) punctatus Snyder is near A. {A.) hondurensis Snyder but 

 has a prominent fontanelle; the fontanelle is not as large as in 

 A. {A.) rotundus Snyder. 



Type locality. — Rosario, Bolivia. 



Described from a deiilated male adult and queen (enlarged, first 

 form) collected with workers at the type locality in October, 1921. 



Type., dealated male adult. — Cat. No. 27G71, U.S.N.M. ; morpho- 

 type, queen. 



ANOPLOTERMES (ANOPLOTERMES) ROTUNDUS, new species 



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

 (to base of post clypeus,) with dense hairs. Fontanelle a hyaline 

 circular prominent raised spot in an orange rimmed depression 

 on vertex of head — not quite as large as an ocellus. 



