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distance from the eye : mandibles small, with black tips : palpi tes- 

 taceous : antennas tawny, 20-jointed, as long as the head : prothorax 

 more than twice broader than long, almost straight in front and be- 

 hind, convex on each side : abdomen twice the length of the thorax : 

 legs tawny; fourth joint of the tarsi twice the length of all the 

 other joints: wings removed. Length of the body 5 lines. 



a. Madras. Presented by Walter Elliot, Esq. 



18. TEBMES MAURICIANUS. 



Rufo-fuscus ; prothorax sat magnus ; abdomen latum ; pedes 

 flam, tiliis tarsisque gracilibus ; alee latte, ad costam rufes- 

 centes. 



Termes Mauricianus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 305, 8. 



" Size of T. flavicollis or a little larger, dull reddish brown, 

 slightly pubescent : head brown, reddish in front : antennae reddish, 

 a little bristly; joints short: prothorax rather large, dull red, a 

 little narrower behind, where it is rounded and rather strongly 

 notched, a little notched in front : abdomen broad, flat, reddish 

 brown above, reddish beneath : legs yellow; tibiaB and tarsi slender: 

 wings large, a little broader than those of T. flavicollis ; fore border 

 reddish; veins slightly pubescent; secondary veins moderately dis- 

 tinct ; second costal vein emitting some recurrent branches which 

 spread on the disk towards the base ; spaces between them micro- 

 scopically reticulated ; costal space without veins." 



Isle of France. 



T. Mauricianus P Piceous, pubescent, shining, sublinear, tes- 

 taceous beneath : head nearly elliptical, rather broad, tawny in front 

 of the eyes, a little broader than the thorax : ocelli two, one on 

 each side, at some distance from the eye: mandibles with black 

 tips : antennae tawny, not longer than the head : thorax mostly 

 testaceous : abdomen subfusiform, longer and a little broader than 

 the thorax : legs testaceous ; fourth joint of the tarsi twice the 

 length of all the other joints : wings gray, with a luteous tinge 

 along the fore border, full twice the length of the body, slightly 

 opaque and rugulose ; some transverse veins between the costal and 

 subcostal veins ; space behind the subcostal vein towards the tip 

 slightly reticulated with veinlets ; secondary veins proceding from 



2 Y 3 



