ABT. 14 TERMITES FROM AMAZON BASIN SNYDER 67 



CAPRITERMES (NEOCAPRITERMES) PARALLELUS, new species 



Winf/ed, fe^nale adult. — Head fuliginous (dark brown with a little 

 black), longer than broad, rounded posteriorly; epicranial suture de- 

 pression on frontal slope; with a feAV scattered long hairs. Fon- 

 tanelle a black, raised, round spot, larger than an ocellus, center 

 hyaline. Eye blackish, not round, large and projecting, very near 

 lateral margin of head. Ocellus hj^aline, elongate, upper rim pro- 

 jecting, separated from eye by a distance greater than the small 

 diameter of an ocellus. 



Post-clypeus slightly lighter colored than head, bilobed, projecting. 

 Labrum yellow-brown, tongue-shaped. 



Antenna yellow-brown, 17 segments, Avith long hairs; third seg- 

 ment very small, ringlike, not a third as long as second which is sub- 

 clavate; fourth slightly longer; from fifth on, segments become 

 longer and broader; last segment elongate, slender, subelliptical. 



Pronotum same color as head, slightly raised anteriorly where 

 margin is nearly straight, sides roundedly slope to posterior margin 

 Mhich is emarginate; with dense short and scattered longer hairs. 



AVings hyaline, slightly smoky, costal veins yellow-brown, mar- 

 gins ciliate, surface with sculpturing similar to that described for 

 C. (N.) opacus Hagen bj'^ Silvestri. Fore wing with median nearer 

 to cubitus and branched to apex of wing; cubitus and sub-branches 

 take up most of wing area, does not reach apex, with 9-10 branches 

 to margin of wang. Hind wing with median near cubitus and 

 branched to apex of wing, cubitus takes up less wing area, with 9-12 

 branches and sub-branches to margin of wang. 



Legs yellow-brown, tibiae dark brown, slender, with long hairs. 



Abdomen with tergites same color as head, with dense short hairs 

 and longer hairs near base each tergite, cerci prominent. 



Measurements. — 



Length of entire winged adult, 15.50 mm. 



Lengtli of entire dealated adnlt, 0.50-10.00 mm. 



Lengtli of iiead, 1.90 mm. 



Length of prorwtum, 0.80 mm. 



Length of fore wing, 13.00 mm. 



Length of hind tibia, 1.80 mm. 



Diameter of eye (long diameter), 0.45 mm. 



Width of head (at eyes), 1.65-1.75 mm. 



Width of pronotum, 1.40-1.45 mm. 



Width of anterior wing, 3.50 mm. 



C. {N.) farallelus Snyder is a smaller species than C. (iV.) opacus 

 Hagen, has a hyaline fontanelle and larger ocelli which are nearer to 

 the eves. 



