ART. 14 



TERMITES FROM AMAZON BASIN SNYDEE 



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Legs pale yellowish, tibiae darker, elongate, slender, pubescent. 

 xVbdomen dirty gray, with tinge of yellow, with dense long yellow- 

 brown hairs. 



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PIG. 3. CONTRASTING VIEWS OF SOLDIERS OF NEW NBOCAPRITBRMES. C. DORSAL VIEW OF 



HEAD AND PKONOTUM OF THE SOLDIER OF CAPEITERMES (NEOCAPRITERMES) HOPKINSI 

 SNYDER SHOWING TWISTED MANDIBLES. 6. LATERAL VIEW OF HEAD AND PRONOTUM OF 

 THE SOLDIER OF CAPRITERMBS (NEOCAPRITERMES) HOPKINSI SNYDER SHOWING TWISTBD 

 MANDIBLES. C. DORSAL VIEW OF HEAD AND PRONOTUM OF THE SOLDIER OF CAPRITERMES 

 (NEOCAPRITERMES) BRAZILIENSIS SNYDER ; NOTE NARROW HEAD AND TWISTED MANDIBLES 



MeasureTnen ts. — 



Length of entire soldier, 8.25-S.50 mm. 



Length of head with mandibles, 5.50-5.60 mm. 



Length of head without mandibles (to anterior), 2.85-3.00 mm. 



Length of left mandible, 2.60-2.80 mm. 



Length of pronotum, 0.55 mm. 



Length of hind tibia, 1.35-1.40 mm. 



Width of head, 1.50-1.60 mm. 



Width of pronotum, 0.90-0.95 mm. 



C. {N .) angusticeps Emerson is larger than hraziliensis Snyder, 

 has a wider head and a bilobed labrum ; hraziliensis differs from C. 

 {N.) opacus, subspecies parvus Silvestri in having a longer head and 

 longer mandibles, in pubescence on head, and only has 15 segments to 

 antennae, whereas parvus has 16 segments. 



Type locality. — Rio Mautania, Brazil. 



Described from four soldiers collected with workers at the type 

 locality in March, 1922, by W. M. Mann. 



T^jjye, soldier.— Cat No. 27634, U.S.N.M. 

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