REVISION OF JSTEARCTIC TERMITES. 



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Miami Beach, Dade County, and Pensacola, Escambia Comity, repre- 

 sent the known distribution, Pensacola being its northern Hmit so fai 

 as this species is known at present. (Fig. 11.) 



Type, winged adult and soldier. — Cat. No. 21856, U.S.N.M. 



KALOTERMES JOUTELI, new species, i 



Winged. — Yellowish, brighter on head, a more or less black mark 

 each side on front edge of the head inward from antennae. Femora 

 pale; tibiae and tarsi more yellowish; venter pale, mandibles mostly 

 black. Head but little broader above than below; above each an- 

 tenna at the dark spot is a distinct elevation leaving a broad depres- 

 sion between them. Eyes large, nearly circular, less than diameter 

 from lower margin, a little less than twice diameter from the hind 

 margin; oceUi large, nearly round, touching eyes. Antennae longer 

 than width of head; 

 third joint no longer 

 than second and 

 hardly darkened . 

 Pronotum plainly 

 broader than head, 

 about twice as 

 broad as long; pos- 

 terior sides rounded 

 into the hind mar- 

 gin, anterior margin 

 broadly evenly con- 

 cave. Wings broken 



off' wino' scale but fig. 13.— distribution of Kalotermes jouteli. 



little longer than the pronotum. Head, pronotum, and iiorsum of 

 abdomen with only fine, very short hair; no long erect hairs. 



Length of body, 10 mm. 



Soldier. — Head castaneous; mandibles black; thorax, abdomen, and 

 legs rather pale. Head about one and one-fourth to one and one-half 

 times as long as broad ; sides slightly convex, broadest in the middle ; 

 liibrum convex on front edge; mandibles about as long as width of 

 head, toothed as in figure; point rather longer than in K. margini- 

 pennis; antennae with the third joint not as long as in K. margini. 

 pe-mvis, but little longer than the next joint; eyes very distinct, black, 

 much more than diameter from antennal pit. Gula in middle about 

 two-thirds as wide as in front. Pronotum fully twice as broad as 

 long; front margin less angularly and more roundly emarginate than 

 in K. margmipennis. Femora about as large as in K. marginipennis. 



Length, from 9 to 13 mm. (Fig. 14, 1.) 



Occurs in southern Florida on the offshore reefs (Adam Key). 

 Also in Cayamas, and Woodfred Inn, Pinares, Cuba, and Vera Cruz 

 and Tampico, Mexico. (Fig 13.) 



Type, soldier.— C&t. No. 21857, U.S.N.M. 



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1 Described 1 y T. K. Snyi.'.er 

 -20— Bull. 108 3 



