TERMITIDES. 523 



cylindrical ; segments closely anchylosed : legs very short and 

 slender. Length of the thorax 1 line; of the abdomen 23 lines. 



a. Ceylon. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



30. Termes lateralis. 



Piceus, gracilis, linearis, subius, antennis pedibusque fuhis ; caput 

 anticefulvum, thorace paullo latins; alcefuscce. 



Piceous, slender, linear, shining, minutely pubescent, tawny 

 beneath: head subelliptical, much longer than broad, depressed on 

 the disk, tawny in front, a little broader than the thorax : ocelli two, 

 small, one on each side, near the eye: mandibles small, acute, pi- 

 ceous towards the tips : antennae tawny : prothorax scutcheon- 

 shaped, nearly twice broader than long, very slightly concave in 

 front, convex and narrower behind : abdomen hardly longer than 

 the thorax : legs tawny : wings brown, full twice the length of the 

 body ; veins brown ; transverse veins along the subcostal space nu- 

 merous and oblique, very indistinct; discal longitudinal vein emit- 

 ting about nine oblique secondary veins, two of them forked. 

 Length of the body If line ; of the wings 6^ lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Eev. S. F. Morgan. 



31. Termes anticus. 



Fulvus, subtus, antemiis pedibusque testaceis ; caput antice testa- 

 ceum ; alee albida, ad costam testacece. 



Female. — Tawny, pubescent, testaceous beneath : head a little 

 longer than broad, as broad as the thorax, testaceous in front: ocelli 

 two, one on each side, between the eyes and close to them : mandi- 

 bles short: antennae testaceous, a little longer than the head, with 

 less than twenty joints; joints increasing in length towards the 

 tips: prothorax subquadrate, a little broader than long : abdomen 

 sublinear, a little broader and shorter than the thorax : legs testa- 

 ceous 5 fourth joint of the tarsi longer than the three preceding 

 joints : wings whitish, finely rugulose, twice the length of the body ; 

 veins along the costa tawny and including a testaceous space; the 

 other veins white and very indistinct; about twelve nearly upright 

 transverse veins and about fifteen secondary veins. Length of the 

 body 3 lines; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. Honduras. From Mr. Millers collection. 



