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length, markedly pigmented a pale castaneous color. The ab- 

 dominal segments are slightly separated and evidently the queen's 

 abdomen is distended with eggs. There are 19 segments to the 

 antenna. The compound eyes are pigmented and the ocelli dis- 

 tinct, at a distance from the compound eye of more than its 

 diameter. 



In the soldier caste the compound eye is very distinct and there 

 are 16 to 18 segments to the antenna. 



This is the first queen of the third form found in the genus Kdlo- 

 termes in the United States. 



On February 18, 1919, colonies were found at Paradise Key, 

 Florida, in dead stubs of trees, logs, and also in the heartwood of 

 living trees; young and eggs were present. Young dealated first- 

 form queens were found in colonies which contained eggs and young 

 on February 18 and 21, in dead stubs of trees in the hammock. 



Kalotermes jouteli was described from the soldier caste and was 

 named in honor of the late Louis H. Joutel, of New York City, an 

 enthusiastic student of the habits of our common termite of eastern 

 United States, namely, Reticuliterwoes jlavipes Kollar. 



K. jouteli occurs with K. schwarzi Banks and Neotermes castaneus 

 Burmeister in dead trees, logs, and branches lying on the ground. It 

 has been found in both decaying and sound wood in contact with 

 the ground. 



No winged adults have as yet been found. 



The egg is white, reniform, and 1.5 to 1.625 mm. in length. 



References to biological or economic literature. 



1919. Banks, N. Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, vol. 62, No. 10. p. 478. 



1919. Thompson, C. B., and Snyder, T. E. Biol. Bull,, vol, 36. No, 2. pp. 115-132. 



KALOTERMES MINOR Hagen. 



For taxonomy see pp. 26-28. 



Hagen (1858) described a small variety of " Kalotermes margini- 

 pennis Latr." from California under the name minor (as a variety 

 only). This form is dark black-brown, with abdomen bluish-black. 

 Hagen, in the appendix to his monograph (1860), writes that he has 

 a male from San Diego, California, which specimen is in many 

 respects interesting, for it proves itself precisely the size as the de- 

 scribed var. minor from California, yet of the light color of the large 

 specimens from Mexico [K. huhhardi Banks]. Of the latter, Hagen 

 only had three isolated individuals and it is not improbable that all 

 three are specimens with immature pigmentation. In one of these 

 this is without doubt the case. The completely formed animal would 

 then display the darker color described for the variety minor. 

 (This variety of Hagen's was, of course, the lighter colored huhhardi 

 Banks.) 



