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brown and vertical to inner margin, a black shade from angle above 

 vein 8 to termen at apex, shaded above with fuscous grey; termen 

 roseate buff shaded with pale grey, and irrorated with black, forming 

 clusters on veins near outer line; the apex is bluntly produced, the 

 termen somewhat convex between veins 5 and 2. 



Hind wings grey shaded with roseate becoming reddish at outer 

 line and on termen, thinly irrorated with dark scales ; the outer line 

 dark brown from costa near apex to anal angle, followed by black 

 clusters of scales on veins. 



Wings below similar but duller. 



Ex. 33 mm. 



Hob. Joinville, Brazil. 



Titya fuscicaudata sp. n. 



9 . Body dull brown ; anal tufts fuscous brown. 



Fore wings smoky brown, thinly scaled, the lines broad, greyish 

 buff; anteniedial inwardly oblique, inbent at submedian; an obhque 

 black spot on discocellular ; postmedial inbent, sinuous; subterminal 

 narrower, parallel with postmedial. 



Hind wings smoky brown; a broad, slightly darker, medial shade. 



Ex. 58 mm. 



Hah. Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. 



The types of these species will be placed in the United 

 States National Museum at Washington. 



The Genera Parotermes and Hodotermes (Isoptera). 



By T, D. A. CocKERELL, Boulder, Colorado. 



At Station 14, in the miocene shales of Florissant, Colo- 

 rado, my wife found a specimen of Parotermes fodinae Scud- 

 der, sufficiently well preserved to show practically the entire 

 venation of the anterior wings. Upon comparison, I find that 

 the venation is nearly identical with that of Hodotermes 

 ochraceus Burm., as figured by Desneux in Genera inscctorum, 

 Isoptera, pi. i, f. 4a. The difference is mainly as follows: P. 

 fodinae has the region above the media considerably narrower, 

 so that about the middle of the wing the media is distinctly 

 nearer to the costa than to the upper branch of the cubitus; 

 the media (scapular vein) gives off above in my example of 



