476 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology, 



Kalotermitidae. 



Adults. 



1. Median vein faint, about one half way from radial sector to cubitus. 



Kalotermes. 

 Median vein as dark as radius, and close to radial sector all the way out. 



Neotermes. 



Median vein faint, at first well separated then bending up to unite with 



the radial sector before ti]) Cryptotermes. 



Soldiers. 



1. Head with large cavity in front; mandibles short, armed alike. 



Cryptotermes. 

 Not so 2 



2. Femora much thickened; tliird antennal joint more or less differentiated 



from others Kalotermes. 



Femora slender; third antennal joint simple as the others Neotermes. 



Cryptotermes. 

 Only one species has as yet been recorded from this region. 



Cryptotermes brevis (Walker). 



Cuba: (W^right; Osten Sacken); Cayamas, 16 February (Schwa rz); 

 Santiago de las Vegas (Cardin). Dominica: Laudet, June (A. M. 

 N. H.) St. Thomas. 



Neotermes. 



Soldiers. 



1. Pronotum angularly emarginate in front; head much elevated above 



pronotum elevalus. 



Pronotum roundedly emarginate in front; head but little above pronotum. 



castaneus. 



Neotermes castaneus (Burmeister). 



Cuba: — Cayamas, 27 May (Schwarz); (Gundlach; Wright). 

 Haiti: — Diquini, November (Mann). Jamaica: — Kingston (Hub- 

 bard); Wag Water River (Hubbard); Port Antonio, 24 November, 



