5-14 TERMITIDES. 



the body ; veins tawny ; no subcostal transverse veins ; longitudinal 

 vein behind the subcostal emitting two branches at two-thirds of 

 its length ; discal longitudinal vein emitting about twelve distinct, 

 very oblique, secondary veins. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



a, b. Honduras, From Mr. Miller's collection. 

 c. ? 



T. destructor P Soldier. Tawny, convex, shining, pubescent : 

 head ferruginous, globose, bare, more than twice the breadth of the 

 thorax, tawny beneath, front part produced into a long, porrect, ho- 

 rizontal, acute horn : eyes and ocelli indistinct, or none: palpi and 

 antennae testaceous : thorax short : abdomen fusiform, much broader 

 and longer than the thorax : legs testaceous, long, slender. Length 

 of the body 1 line. 



a. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



12. TERMES MO RIO. 



Niger; (interims, ore, pedibus ventreque testaceis ; alis nigris, 

 opacis. Long. 2 : alar. 5j lin. 



Termes morio, Fair. Ent. Syst. ii. 90, 3. Burrn. Handb. Ent. ii. 

 2, 767, 1 1 . Ramb. Hist.' Nat. Ins. Neur. 305, 7. 



Cayenne ; Porto Rico. 



T. Morio P Piceous, pubescent, linear, hardly shining, testa- 

 ceous beneath : head nearly oval, slightly produced and narrower in 

 front, depressed on the disk, tawny towards the mouth, full as broad 

 as the thorax: ocelli two, one on each side near the front of the eye : 

 mandibles with black tips : antenna? testaceous, longer than the 

 head : prothorax nearly twice longer than broad, slightly concave 

 in front, more convex behind, slightly convex and sinuated on each 

 side ; a transverse furrow near the fore border, and a longitudinal 

 furrow on the disk : abdomen as broad as the thorax and very much 

 longer ; sides and hind borders of the segments testaceous : legs 

 testaceous, slender; fourth joint of the tarsi as long as all the pre- 

 ceding joints: wings gray; veins brown; no transverse veins be- 

 tween the costal and subcostal veins ; some very indistinct transverse 

 veins between the latter and the next longitudinal vein, which 



