ART. 14 TERMITES FROM AMAZON BASIN SNYDER 47 



Abdomen with tergites castaneous, with dense long hairs ; cerci not 

 prominent. 



Measurements. — 



Length of entire winged adult, 11-12 mm. 

 Length of entire dealated adult, 7.00 mm. 

 Length of head (to tip labrum), 1.10 mm. 

 Length of left mandible, 0.50 mm. 

 Length of prouotum, 0.50 mm. 

 Length of hind tibia, 0.85 mm. 

 Length of anterior wing, 9.50 mm. 

 Diameter of eye ( long diam. ) , 0.20 mm. 

 Width of head, 0.95 mm. 

 Width of pronotum, 0.90 mm. 

 Width of anterior wing, 2.00 mm. 



A. {A.) holivianus Snj^der is close to A. {A.) gracilis Snyder, 

 except that the latter has an indistinct fontanelle and a narrower 

 head. 



Type locality. — Tumupasa, Bolivia, k 



Described from three female adults collected at the type locality 

 in December with workers and male winged adults and workers of 

 Anoplofermes (A.) indistinctus Snyder; two other female winged 

 adults, topotypes ; other localities are — Rosario, Bolivia, March, 1922, 

 dealated female adult with A. indistinctus Snyder dealated male 

 adult; also Rosario, October, 1921, dealated female adults. 



Type, female winged adult.— Cs^t. No. 27662, U.S.N.M. 



ANOPLOTERMES (ANOPLOTERMES) CLYPEATUS. new species 



Winged, female adult. — Head dark castaneous-brown, wider than 

 long (posterior to base of postclypeus), with dense fairly long hairs. 

 Fontanelle a small hyaline subelliptical spot on vertex of head. 



Postclypeus yellow brown, bilobed, projecting, less than twice as 

 broad as long, with long hairs. 



Eye black, not round, projecting, near lateral margin of head. 

 Ocellus hyaline, suboval, with projecting upper rim, separated from 

 the eye by a distance less than the small diameter of an ocellus, 

 at oblique angle to eye. 



Mandible yellow-brown, castaneous at apex, not long. 



Antenna yellow-brown, 15 segments, segments becoming longer 

 and broader toward apex, with long hairs; third segment short, 

 narrow, and ring-like, shorter than second or fourth segments; 

 fourth segment shorter than second; last segment elongate, slender, 

 and subelliptical. 



Pronotum light yellow-brown, saddle-shaped, subcordat«, with T- 

 shaped marking and long hairs. 



Meso- and meta-nota with posterior margin deeply and roundedly 

 emarginate. 



