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Length to tip of wings, 13 nun. 



Soldier. — Head castaneous, darker on the frontal slope, which is 

 more sharply delimited than usual; labrum nearly truncate, lateral 

 sides margined; head about one-fourth longer than broad, about as 

 broad behind as in front, the sides slightly convex, eyes rather large, 

 but indistinct, less than their diameter from the antennal pit; the 

 front of head is depressed and this area angularly lunited behind by 

 a ridge; mandibles longer than width of head, slender, toothed as in 

 the figure; antennae 11-jointed, the third joint greatly elongated, 

 clavate, dark colored, fully as long as the next four joints together; 

 last joint of the maxillary palpi much 

 longer than the preceding, but not 

 very slender, rather swollen toward 

 the ip, gula hardly one-third as broad 

 in middle as in front; pronotum is 

 about twice as broad as long, deeply, 

 roundedly emarginate in front; the 

 anterior sides toward the corner and 

 over the corner are plainly, irregularly 

 dentate ; the outer sides nearly parallel, 

 the hind border convex; legs short; 

 femora thickened, but hardly as much 

 so as in K. marginipennis ; the tibia 

 with three apical spines. 



Length, 6 to 8 mm. (Fig. 18.) 



Occurs in Lower California (Cape 

 San Lucas), Arizona, and California. 

 In California, San Diego, and San 

 Jose. In Arizona, at Nogales, along 

 the Santa Cruz River (Santa Cruz 

 County) ; at Palmerlee and in the 

 Dragoon Mountains, Texas Pass (Cochise County) ; in the Santa 

 Catalina Mountains (Sabino Canyon, Brush Corral Station), Tucson, 

 and Redington, in Pima County, in the "Graham Mountains," Ash 

 Creek (Graham County?). (Fig. 17.) 



Type, winged adult.— Cut. No. 21855, U.S.N.M. 



Fig. 17.— Distribution of Kalotermes 

 hubbakdi . 



KALOTERMES TEXANUS, new species. 



Soldier. — Head yellowdsh, darker; almost red-brown in front, man- 

 dibles black; antennae pale, third joint dark brown, thorax yellowish 

 legs paler; abdomen pale yellowish. Head about one and a half 

 times as long as broad, as broad in front as behind, sides not rounded, 

 antennae short, 12-jointed, reaching hardly beyond tip of mandibles, 

 third joint enlarged, equal to next three together. Mandibles stout, 



