44 



BULLETINS' 108, UNITED STATES ITATIOXAL MUSEUM. 



RETICULITERMES HAGENI. new species. 



Winged. — Pale yellowisli brown; coxae, femora, and pleura much 

 darker brown; antennae brown, palpi wholly pale. Head plainly 

 broader than in R. virginicus; the eyes of the same size, fully their 

 diameter from the lower margin; the ocelli scarcely their diameter 

 from the eyes; the median groove ends in the punctiform fontanelle 

 a little before hind border of eyes; lateral and median spots of head 

 distinct, laterals semilunar, the median transverse. Pronotum as 

 broad as m R. virginicus, but plainly longer; not as broad as width 

 of head between eyes, hind border plainly bilobed, anterior margin 

 slightly concave, and with a median incision. Abdomen is similar 



to R. virginicns, but in the male 

 the hind edge of both the fifth and 

 sixth ventral segments is plainly 

 concave. Body clothed with pale 

 hair, that on head also pale. Wings 

 hyaline, not grayish. Length to 

 tip of wings, 8 mm. In vicinity 

 of Washington, hageni flies the lat- 

 ter part of July or early in August. 

 Soldier. — Head about one and 

 three-fourths times as long as 

 broad, sides parallel, a little shorter 

 than in R.Jlavipes and plainly more 

 narrow, of a very pale yellowish col- 

 or, darker in front, paler than any 

 other of our species; the ocellar 

 spots scarcely if at all visible; gula 

 about two and one-half times as 

 broad in front as at narrowest 

 part; mandibles as long as width 

 of the head. Pronotum narrower 

 than the head, shghtly emarginate in middle in front; cerci aud sty- 

 lets about as in R. jiaviyes. 



Occurs from Florida (Jacksonville, Apr. 29) to Maryland west to 

 Illinois and Texas. In South Carolina at Charleston, in Charleston 

 County; in Virginia at Lake Drummond, Dismal Swamp, Norfolk 

 County, Kichmond, in Henrico County, Falls Church, Chain Bridge, 

 and Great Falls (Fairfax County). In Maryland at Bladensburg, 

 Prince Georges County; at Washington, District of Columbia; at 

 Kane, Greene County, Illinois; and Harrisburg, Harris County, 

 Texas. (Fig. 29.) 



On October 30, 1918, near Houston, Texas, H. S. Barber found a 

 pair of dealated adults of this termite. These two specimens may 



Fig. 29. — Distribution of Reticulitermes 



HAGENI. 



