516 TEEMITIDES. 



Ferruginous, pubescent, tawny beneath : head elliptical, longer 

 than broad, a little narrower than the thorax, piceous on the disk, 

 tawny in front : ocelli two, one on each side, between the eyes and 

 close to them : mandibles short, broad : antenna? tawny, mutilated, 

 with less than twenty joints, not longer than the head; joints of 

 equal length : prothorax twice broader than long, slightly concave 

 in front and equally convex behind ; sides somewhat rounded : ab- 

 domen increasing in breadth from the base to near the tip, broader 

 but not longer than the thorax : legs tawny ; fourth joint of the 

 tarsi twice the length of all the preceding joints : wings brownish, 

 slightly opaque and rugulose, brown along the costa, nearly twice 

 the length of the body, indistinctly reticulated ; five or six trans- 

 verse oblique veins in the subcostal space ; the other veins pale ; se- 

 condary veins numerous but indistinct. Length of the body 2^ 

 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



a. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



17. TEBMES OBESUS. 

 Piceus ; pedesfulm ; alee sordide Midi. 



Termes obesus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 305, 5. 

 Bombay. 



T. obesus? Piceous, sublinear, shining, pubescent : head sub- 

 elliptical, flat between the eyes, very little broader than the thorax : 

 ocelli two, one on each side, near the eye : antennae a little longer 

 than the head: prothorax twice longer than broad, convex on each 

 side and behind, hardly concave in front : abdomen a little shorter 

 than the ^thorax : legs tawny ; fourth joint of the tarsi twice the length 

 of all the other joints: wings dingy whitish ; veins fawn-colour; no 

 distinct transverse subcostal veins ; cliscal longitudinal vein with 

 distinct secondary veins. Length of the body 4J- lines ; of the 

 wings 24 lines. 



a. North India. From Mr. L. James's collection. 

 b,c. ? 



T. obesus ? Piceous, sublinear, pubescent, shining, tawny be- 

 neath : head tawny in front : ocelli two, one on each side, at some 



