502 TERMITIDES. 



Genus TERMES. 



Tarsi 4-articulati. Alarum venae discales obsoletae membrana- 

 cea?, recurrentes nulla?. 



Termes, Linn., $-c. 



Termitina, Burm. ; Hagen, Ueber die Lebens weise der Termiten 



und Hire Verbreitung. 

 Termitida?, Newman. 



Rambur divides Termes into the two following groups : — 



a. Costal space traversed by oblique veins. 

 T. flavicollis, ochraceus, pallidus, quadricollis, obesus. 



a a. Costal space without veins. 



T. lucifugus, morio, Mauricianus, costatus, grandis, angustatus, 

 subhyalinus, dirus, nigricans, Rippertii, triuervius, dubius, cephalotes. 



I. Termes flavicollis. 



Fuscus ; ore, antennis, prothorace pedibusque testaceis ; alis in 

 medio purpureo, lateribus ceneo-micantibus. 



Termes flavicollis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 91, 6. Descript. de VEgypte, 

 Neur. pi. 2, f. 12. Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 764, 1. Ramb. 

 Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 302, 1. 



T. flavicollis P — Testaceous, sublinear, smooth, shining, thinly 

 pubescent, paler beneath : head elliptical, flat above, very little 

 b.oader than the thorax : ocelli 2, one on each side, close to the eye : 

 palpi short, straw-colour : antenna? straw-colour, 16-jointed, nearly 

 as long as the head : prothorax nearly twice broader than long, 

 slightly concave in front, slightly convex on each side, straight be- 

 hind : abdomen widening from the base to the tip, a little broader 

 but hardly longer than the thorax: legs straw-colour; fourth joint 

 of the tarsi as long as all the other joints: wings quite colourless 

 and transparent, more than twice the length of the body ; costal and 

 subcostal veins testaceous \ the other veins obsolete. Length of the 

 body 2\ lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



a — b. • ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



