REVISIO^r 0¥ nearctic termites. 



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Wiiiged adults from Fort Grant and Oracle, Arizona, flying July 5 

 to 9 (Hubbard and Schwarz), Sabino Basin, Santa Catalina Moun- 

 tains, July 8 to 20 (Lutz and Rehn); Tucson, Arizona, May 17. 



Soldier.— P ale yellowish; apical part of the abdomen gray; man- 

 dibles from tooth outward dark red brown; antennae brownish beyond 

 middle; legs white. Head a little longer than broad, as broad in 

 frQut as behind; sides slight! 

 romided; mandibles as long as 

 head, hardly curved except near 

 tips; a distinct tooth on each 

 rather more than one-third way 

 out; antennae a little longer than 

 the mandibles; first joint long; 

 second one-half of first; third 

 about as long as second; others 

 gradually a little longer; lab rum 

 narrow, almost pointed at tip; 

 gula with straight sides, gradual- 

 ly narrowmg a little from behind 

 forward. Body and legs densely 

 clothed with fine whitish hair. 



Length of head plus mandi- 

 bles, 2.7 mm. (Figs. 42, 2; 44.) 



From Nogales, Santa Cruz 

 County; Tucson and Catalina 

 Mountains (Fenner and Sabino 

 Canyons), Pima County (Snyder 

 and Hofer), Ray Junction (H. S. Barber), and Oracle (W. M. Wheeler), 

 Pinal County, Arizona; and workers only, which probably belong to 

 this species, from Arrowhead Springs, San Bernardino County, Cali- 

 fornia (Snyder) ; workers and soldiers from Palm Springs (Riverside 

 County), California (Hubbard). (Fig. 43.) 



Type, winged adult.— Cat. No. 21867, U.S.N.M. 



AMITERMES WHEELER! Desneux. 



Soldier. — Pale, yellowish; abdomen gray, legs pale yellowish; 

 mandibles beyond the basal third red-brown; antennae scarcelj^ 

 darkened. Head plainly one-fourth longer than broad, about as 

 broad in front as beliind; sides nearly straight and parallel; labrum 

 with rounded tip. Mandibles about as long as width of head, slender, 

 curved (more slender than in A. califomicus) ; near the end of basal 

 tliird is a distinct rather sharp-pointed tooth; antennae about one 

 and a half times longer than the mandibles; the basal joint rather 

 long; second, third, and fourth very short. Gula plainly broader 

 behind than in front. Body and legs with fine white hairs. 



Length of head plus mandibles, 2 mm, (Fig. 45, 1.) 



Fig. 43.— Distribution of Amitermes 



ARIZONE>fSIS. 



