X . A NEW SPECIES OF T E R M I T A P H I S 



(HEM I PTERA-HETEROPTERA) 



FROM INDIA. 



Bv F. Sii.vESTRT (Pnrlici). 



Dr. N. Anaandale, Director of the Zoological Survey of India, 

 has kindly sent me for examination a collection of Termites and 

 Terinitophils carefully made by himself on Barkuda Island in the 

 Chilka Lake, Orissa. Among this material I have found several 

 specimens of the interesting termitophil genus Tennitaphis Wastn. 



As these specimens are the first collected in India and as 

 among them are young females and adult males, which until now 

 were unknown, I wish, with Dr. Annandale's kind permission, to 

 describe them in the present paper. 



HEMIPTERA-HETEROPTERA. 

 Earn. TERMITOCORIDAE. 



The family Termitocoridae was founded by me' in rgii on 

 the L;;enus Tennitaphis Wasm.* first referred to the Aphididae. 

 The type of the genus i^ I'ermitaphis circumvallata Wasm. from 

 Columbia. In 191 1 (op. cit.) I described T. inexicnna from Mexico 

 and T. suhafra from Principe I. (West Africa); Mjoberg^ added 

 the description of another species (T. australiensis) from Australia. 



The species now found in India by Dr. Annandale confirms 

 the general distribution of Tennitaphis in the tropics, in nests of 

 Termites, especially of the genera Leucotermes, Coptotennes, 

 Schedorhinotermes , Hamitermes. 



The three species T. lircumvallata, T. iiiexicana and T. siibafra 

 were described from a single stage, it was thus not possible to know 

 the ditferent characters cf adult females, adult males, and voung. 

 The material collected bj' Dr. Annandale has enabled me to give 

 complete descriptions of the various stages. 



Termitaphis annandalei sp. n. 



(Figs. I-III). 



5 Corpus (Fig. I, i) testaceo-isabelliuum parte ventrali 

 pallidiore, antennis pedibusque isabellinis ; valde depressum, 

 circumlitione ellipticum, fere 3 7 longius quam latius. 



' Boll. Lab. Zool. V, p. 232 (1911 1. 



■^ Tijdschr. v. Entom. xlv, p. 105, pi. y. figs. 7-70 (1902). 



'^ Enfomohghk Tidski-ift. p. oS. i IQ14). 



