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Soldier. — Nasute. Head reddish brown; beak mostly black, but 

 extreme tip reddish; thorax and abdomen brown above; antennae 

 and femora paler brown; rest of legs yellowish. Head constricted 

 as in figure, from side, divided into three subequal parts; the globose 

 upper part, the free beak, and the lower part of head, which from the 

 side is but slightly convex, and hardlj^ as long as the free beak, all 

 with some erect hairs, those on globose part as long as vertical thick- 

 ness of beak at middle; antennae 13-jointed; first and third subequal, 

 much longer than the others; second very short; thorax and abdomen 

 with long hairs; legs with short hair. (Figs. 54, 2 and 3; 57.) 



Length of head, 1.5 mm. to 1.6 mm. 



Occurs in Arizona and Texas. In Arizona, from Nogales (Santa 

 Cruz County) , on the Mexican border (Oslar) ; in the Huachuca 

 Mountains (Kunze) and Palmerlee and Garcia (Biederman), in 

 Cochise Count}^; in the Santa Rita 

 Mountains, elevation 5,000 to 8,000 

 feet (Snow) ; in the Santa Catalina 

 Mountains (Schwarz), Sabino Basin, 

 Santa CataUna ^Mountains, in Pima 

 County, July 8 to 20 (Lutz and Relm) 

 also Catalina Springs; and Oracle 

 (Pinal County) (Wheeler), and in the 

 Pinaleno Mountains, Post Canyon 

 elevation 5,000 to 6,000 feet, Graham 

 County (Wheeler) . In Texas from Fort 

 Davis, Jeff Davis County (Wheeler). 

 (Fig. 56.) 



CONSTRICTOTERMES CINEREUS Buckley. 



Winged.— N Qvy similar to C. tenui- 

 rostris; of the same size and color, pu- 

 bescence, and general structure. It 

 differs in having the oceUi fulh* one- 

 half their long diameter (about their 

 short diameter) from the eyes. The pro- 

 notum is a trifle longer and more nar- 

 rowed behind, and the sides evenly rounded into the rounded hind mar- 

 gin. The wings are paler in color than in 0. tenuirostris. (Fig. 58, 1.) 



C. strenuus Hagen from Vera Cruz, Mexico, is a very similar species, 

 but the ocelli are very much smaller and still farther from the eyes. 



Soldier. — Xasute. Closely resembles C. tenuirostris, except smaller 

 throughout. The head is more black on globose part and there is 

 more reddish showing at tip of beak; the hairs on head in front are 

 proportionally fewer, but ])ro})ortionally a little longer. The an- 

 tennae are but 12-jointed; the fii-st and third long and second very 

 short, as in C. tenuirostris. 



Length of head, 1.3 to 1.4 mm. 

 110162— 20— Bull. 108 6 



Fig. 00.— Distribution of consteicto- 

 termes tenotro.stris. 



