ABT. 14 TEBMITES PEOM AMAZON BASIN — SNYDER O 



Family KALOTERMITIDAE 



KALOTERMES (NEOTERMES) MAGNOCULUS, new species 



Winged, female adult. — Head \v^\i castaneous-brown, lif^liter at 

 posterior margin, shining, longer than broad, slight depression and 

 slope to front at epicranial suture, latter plainly outlined to ocelli 

 as is median line, with scattered long hairs. Eyes blackish, very 

 large, not round, close to lateral margin head, and separated from 

 posterior margin by a distance about equal to their long diameter. 

 Ocelli large, elongate, at angle to but close to eye. 



Labrum light castaneous-brown, about three-quarters as long as 

 broad, broadly rounded at apex, with long hairs. 



Antenna pale yellow-brown, 17 segments, beadlike, pubescent; 

 third segment short, subclavate, slightly longer than second or 

 fourth; fourth, fifth, and sixth segments subequal, small and bead- 

 like ; segments become longer and wider toward apex. 



Pronotum pale yellow-brown, probably slightly wider than head 

 (corners turned down) not twice as wide as long, slightly emarginate 

 anteriorl}'' and posteriorly, sides rounded, Avith long hairs. 



Legs pale yellow-brov/n, pubescent, claws with no pulvillus. 



"Wings white, punctate, costal veins yellow-brown, hairs on upper 

 margins and on surface of lower margin, especially near scale; 

 median vein runs close to subcosta, unbranched to apex (except for 

 two indistinct, short, transverse branches to subcosta) ; subcostal 

 vein with T (mostly long) branches to costa; cubitus in about the 

 centre of the wing, slightly nearer to lower margin, with 11 branches 

 to the lower margin. Wing scale 1.0 mm. in length. 



Abdomen pale yellow-brown, with long and short hairs. 



Measurements. — 



Leugtli of entire winged adult, 10.75 mm. 



Length of entire deiilated adult, 7.25 mm. 



Length of head, 1.65 mm. 



Length of pronotum (where longest, and not at median), 0.S5 mm. 



Length of hind tibia, 1.0 mm. 



Length of anterior wing, 8.3 mm. 



Diameter of eye (long diameter), 0.45 mm. 



Width of liead, 1.35 mm. 



Width of pronotum, 1.35+ mm. (turned down). 



Width of anterior wing, 2.45 mm. 



This may be the winged caste of A', manni Snyder described from 

 the soldier caste alone. Lighter colored and smaller than N. fulve- 

 Hcens Silvestri, with smaller eye. 



Tyj)e locality. — Huachi, Bolivia. 



Described from a single female winged adult collected at tlic type 

 locality by W. IM. Mann in September, 1921. 



Tyjye, winged adult., female. — Cat. No. 27644, U.S.N.M. 



