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Antenna j^ellow, 15 segments, with dense long hairs, segments 

 becoming longer and broader towards apex; third segment shorter 

 than second or fourth segments; fourth shorter than second seg- 

 ment ; last segment elongate, slender, subelliptical. 



Eye black, nearly round, projecting, close to lateral margin of 

 head. Ocellus hyaline, suboval, with projecting upper rim, sepa- 

 rated from eye by a distance equal to its long diameter. 



Post clypeus lighter colored than head (yellow-brown,) project- 

 ing, bilobed, slightly over twice as broad as long, with dense long 

 hairs. 



Mandibles yellow, castaneous at tips, elongate. 



Pronotum lighter colored than head, narrower than head, saddle 

 shaped, anterior margin straight, sides angularly slope to posterior 

 margin which is straight, with dense long hairs. 



Meso- and meta-nota with posterior margins emarginate. 



Wings gray, costal area golden yellow-brown, tissue punctate, 

 margins ciliate. In forewing median vein closer to cubitus than 

 to sub-costa, reaches apex of wing entire or branched; cubitus does 

 not reach apex of wing, with 10-11 branches or sub-branches to 

 lower margin of wing, occupies less than half area of wing (in 

 width.) 

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



Abdomen with tergites castaneous, with dense hairs, cerci not 

 prominent. 



Measurements. — 



Length of entire winged male adult, 11.50 mm. 



Length of entire dealated, G.80 mm. 



Length of head (to tip of labnmi), 1.20 mm. 



Length of left mandible, 0.75 mm. 



Length of pronotum, 0.65 mm. 



Length of hind tibia, 1.40 mm. 



Length of anterior wing, 10.00 mm. 



Diameter of eye (long diameter), 0.27 mm. 



Width of head (at eye.s), 1.25 mm. 



Width of pronotum, 1.10 mm. 



Width of anterior wing, 2.60 mm. 



A. {A.) rotundus Snyder is distinctive due to the prominent cir- 

 cular fontanelle; otherwise it is close to ^. {A.) hondurensis Snyder. 



Tyjte locality. — Rosario, Bolivia. 



Described from two male winged adults collected with workers at 

 the type locality in November, 1921, with Anoplotermes (A.) 

 pacificus Fritz Miiller (winged and workers) and Gapriterines {Neo- 

 capritertnes ) parallelus Snyder (soldiers and workers). 



Type^ winged male adult.— OaX. No. 27G72, U.S.N.M. 



The following described species of Anoplotermes were also col- 

 lected ; 



