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BULLETIN 108, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



rest of abdomen and legs paler. Head about one and one-half times 

 as long as broad, sides nearly parallel; eyes indistinct, about diametei* 

 from antennal pit; antennae short, third joint elongated, and at tip 

 swollen, about as long as the next three joints together (but not as 



ong as in K. Tiulhardi). Labrum 

 slightly romided in front; mandibles 

 about as long as width of head, teeth 

 not very prominent, as in figure; gula 

 very slender, about one-third as wide 

 in middle as in front; prono turn plain- 

 ly more than twice as broad as long ; 

 angularly indented in the middle of 

 front, but the lateral anterior sides 

 are not plainly dentate; posterior 

 margin faintly sinuate. Femora 

 thickened as usual; the tibia rather 

 darker on base than elsewhere. 



Length, 8 to 10 mm. (Fig. 14, 2.) 

 Occurs in Arizona and California. 

 In Arizona, Nogales (Calalmsis Can- 

 yon), Santa Cruz County, in the San- 

 ta Catalina Mountains (Bear, Edgar, 

 and Sabino Canyons), and Keding- 

 ton, Arizona, all in Pima County. 

 In Cahfornia Palm Springs (Riverside 

 County), Los Angeles (Los Angeles County), Monterey, and Cypress 

 Point (Monterey County), Los Gatos, San Jose, and Palo Alto (San 

 Jose County) and Niles (Alameda County). (Fig. 16.) 



Fig. 



16.— Distribution of 



MINOR. 



Kalotermes 



KALOTERMES HUBBARDI, new species. 



Winged. — Pale brownish yellow; venter and legs paler; tips of 

 mandibles black, a slightly darker patch at hind corner of pronotum. 

 Head not broader above than below; eyes large, nearly circular, less 

 than long diameter from the lower margin, and not much more than 

 twice thoir diameter from the hind margin ; ocelli nearly round, slightly 

 separated from the eyes. Antennae about as long as width of head, 

 third joint not longer than the second or fourth, and scarcely darker, 

 of 16 joints. Pronotum about twice as broad as long, anterior margin 

 slightly concave; posterior sides slightly rounded into the hind border. 

 Wing scale a little longer than the pronotum. Wings pale, costal 

 veins yellowish, in length about one and a half times the abdomen 

 in female; radial sector six or seven branched, last two or three short; 

 median vein runs about halfway between radial sector and cubitus. 

 (PI. 2, fig. 4.) Body with only very fine, minute hair, abdomen 

 above practically without hairs. 



