banks: axtillean isoptera. 477 



at light (A. E. Wight); Bog River, G April (A. E. Wight). Mont- 

 serrat, 23 March (Hubbard). 



In some specimens the ocelli seem more oblique and the eye rather 

 nearer to the margin of the head as in Plate 1, fig. 10. 



Xeotermes elevatus, sp. nov. 



Typc.— \. M. X. H. Paratype.— ^l. C. Z. 10,075. Dominica: 

 Laudat, June. 



Soldier. — Head yellowish, browner in front; mandibles red-brown 

 to black, rest of body pale. Head but little longer than broad ; sides 

 slightly rounded, broadly rounded })ehind, in the middle of front 

 plainly depressed, above clothed A\ith rather long, erect hairs; man- 

 dibles large, stout, sharp-pointed, almost as long as width of head, 

 the left one with three teeth as usual, right with two teeth near middle; 

 labrum short; clypeus moderately long, rounded at tip; antennae 

 12-jointed, third joint not modified nor longer than second; gula 

 hardly one half as wide in middle as in front. Pronotum twice as 

 broad as long, angularly emarginate in front, sides rounded into the 

 hind border, above with many fairly long bristles; cerci distinct; legs 

 short, femora slender, hind femur about four times as long as broad. 

 The head is so attached as to be much above the level of the thorax. 

 Length of head, exclusive of mandibles, 2 mm.; width 1.5 mm. 



Kalotermes. * 



Winged. 



1. Head and thorax red-brown, small species not 10 mm. long. . . .posticus. 

 Head and thorax pale yellowish ; larger species 2 



2. Body with bristly hair schwarzi. 



Body with only very short fine hair jouteli. 



Soldiers. 



1. Third antennal joint scarcely if at all longer than second 2 



Third antennal joint plainly longer than the second 3 



2. Eyes visible, blj^ck mona. 



Eyes not noticeable, hyaline schwarzi. 



3. Eyes visible, black, gula very broad jouteli. 



Eyes not noticeable, hyaline, gvila very slender posticus. 



