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BULLETIN 108, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Fig. 46.— Distribution of Amitermes wheeleri. 



Winged form unknown. 



Occurs in many places in Texas. Collected by Snyder as follows: 

 Brownsville, Cameron County; Cotulla, Lasalle County; San Antonio; 

 Bexar Count}^; Uvalde, Chalk Bluff, and Laguna, Uvalde County, 



and El Paso, El Paso 

 County. (Fig. 46.) 



Cot3^pes are in the 

 American Museum 

 Natural History (com- 

 pared) , 



AMITERMES CALIFORNICUS, 



new species. 



Soldier. — Yellowish ; 

 abdomen, gray; legs, 

 whitish; mandibles, 

 from basal third out, 

 red -brown; antennae, 

 pale; 13 segments. 

 Head a little longer than broad, as broad in front as behind; sides 



hardly rounded; labrum with rounded tip. Mandibles short and 



heavy, not as long as widt 



of the head, strongly curved; 



a stout, blunt tooth on each 



a little beyond basal third. 



Antennae about twice as long 



as mandibles, basal joint long, 



second one-half as long, third 



equal second, fourth and others 



gradually longer and larger. 



Gula broader behind, taper- 

 ing forward. Body and legs 



with rather long, fine, white 



hair. 



Length of head plus mandi- 

 bles, 2.1 mm. (Fig. 45, 2.) 

 From Jacumba, San Diego 



County, California (Keen), 



along the boundry line of Lower 



California and Arrowhead 



Springs, San Bernardino County, 



California (Snyder). In Arizona, Sabino Canyon, Santa Catalina 



Mountains (Hofer). (Fig. 47.) 



Type, soIdier.—C&t. No. 21870, U.S.N.M. 



Winged. — The adult of tliis species is closely related to A. ari- 



zonensis; the head, pronotum, and wings are all closely similar to 



Fig. 47.— Distribution of amitermes califor- 



NICUS. 



