ART. 14 TERMITES FROM AMAZON BASIN SNYDER 69 



Type, female, winged adult. — Cat. No, 27676, U.S.N.M. ; morpho- 

 type, soldier. 



This termite was also collected as follows : 



CAPRITERMES (NEOCAPRITERMES) PARALLELUS Snyder 



Kosario (Lake Rogogua), Bolivia, October, 1921 (soldiers and 

 workers) ; Rosario, Bolivia, November, 1921 (soldiers and workers) ; 

 Rosario, Bolivia, November, 1921 (winged adults, soldiers, and work- 

 ers) ; Rosario, Bolivia, November, 1921 (soldiers and workers with 

 winged adults of Anoplotermes {A.) paciflcus Fritz Miiller and 

 rotundus Snj^der in termite hills) ; Cavinas, Bolivia, February, 1922 

 (soldiers and workers) ; Ivon, Bolivia, February, 1922 (soldiers and 

 workers). 



CAPRITERMES (NEOCAPRITERMES) VILLOSUS Halnigren 



Soldier}^ — Epicranium of head yellow-brown, light castaneous- 

 brown anteriorly and at sides, longitudinal, depressed median line 

 reddish-brown, head broadest posteriorly, narrows towards anterior, 

 frontal gland at end of median line in V-shaped depression (epicra- 

 nial suture), head with dense, reddish, short hairs, few scattered 

 longer hairs. 

 . Labrum castaneous-brown, broadest at apex, trilobed. 



Antenna light castaneous-brown, 16 segments, pubescent; third 

 segment subclavate, longer than second and fourth segments; seg- 

 ments from fifth to eleventh elongate and wide; segments from 

 twelfth to sixteenth shorter and narrower; last segment slender and 

 pointed at apex. 



Pronotum light yellowish, margins light castaneous-brown, saddle- 

 shaped, with long hairs on margins, markedly emarginate anteriorly 

 and emarginate posteriorly. 



Legs light yellow-brown, elongate, slender, pubescent, claws 

 castaneous-brown. 



Abdomen light yellow brown, with dense, long, yellowish hairs. 



Measurements. — 



Length of entire soldier, 16.50-1G.75 mm. 



Lengtli of head witli mandibles, 10.50-10.75 mm. 



Length of head without mandibles (to anterior). 5.1)0 mm. 



Length of left mandible, 5.20 mm. 



Length of pronotum, 1.00-1.10 mm. 



Length of hind tibia, 3.40-3.50 mm. 



Width of head, 4.80^.90 mm. 



Width of pronotum (at widest portion), 2.85-2.90 mm. 



" De.scription agrees witli soldier as figured by N. riolmgren, tig. Qc, p. 558, Zoolog. 

 Jahrbiich, vol. 23, 1905-6, Jena, but these soldiers are larger. 



