ART. 14 TERMITES FROM AMAZON BASIN SNYDER 49 



row, ring-like, shorter than fourth or second segments; fourth not 

 quite as long as second; last segment slender, elongate and subel- 

 liptical. 



Pronotum light yellow-brown, saddle-shaped, subcordate, emargi- 

 nate posteriori}'', with long hairs, 



Meso- and meta-nota deeply and angularly emarginate. 



Legs yellowish, with long hairs. 



Abdomen with tergites yellow-brown tinged with gray, with faint 

 spiracular markings and dense long hairs ; cerci not prominent. 



Measurements. — 



Length of entire queen, 14.00 mm. 

 Length of head (to tip labrum), 1.00 mm. 

 Lengtli of pronotum, 0..^0 mm. 

 Length of left mandible, 0.55 mm. 

 Length of hind tibia, 0.80 mm. 

 Diameter of eye (long diameter), 0.20 mm. 

 Width of abdomen of queen, 2.00 mm. 

 Width of head, 0.S5 mm. ^ 



Width of pronotum, 0.75 mm. 



A. (A.) distans Snyder has a smaller eye than A. (A.) gracilis 

 Snyder and, unlike the latter species, a distinct fontanelle. 



Type locality. — Rosario, Bolivia. 



Described from a first form queen collected with workers in No- 

 vember at the type locality by W. M. Mann. 



Type, first form queen.— C^^t. No. 27663, U.S.N.M. 



ANOPLOTERMES (ANOPLOTERMES) DISTINCTUS, new species 



Winged, female adult. — Head castaneous-brown, broader than long 

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

 hyaline, a distinct suboval spot in a depression at vertex of head. 

 Postclypeus light yellow-brown tinged with gray, bilobed, project- 

 ing, twice as broad as long, with long hairs. 



Eye black not round, large, projecting, close to lateral margin of 

 head. Ocellus hyaline, oblong, with projecting uj^per rim, close and 

 at an oblique angle to eye, separated from eye b}^ a distance less than 

 the short diameter of an ocellus. 



Mandible yellow, apex castaneous, relatively long. 



Antenna light yellow-brown, 15 segments, becoming broader and 

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

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

 shorter than second segment; last elongate, slender and subelliptical. 



Pronotum light yellow-brown, tinged with gray, saddle-shaped, 

 semicircular, with long hairs. 



Meso- and meta-nota broadly and deeply emarginate. 



