THE KASHMIR TERMITE, 

 TERMOPSIS WROUGHTONI. 



By J. Desneux (Brussels). 



It will be remembered that in Vol. XV (1904) of the Society's 

 Journal, page 44a, I gave a brioi" description of a new Termite from 

 Kashmir, Termopsis Wroughtoni, the first Asiatic representative of 

 the genus Termopsis. 



As I then said, the few specimens received from Mr. Wroughton 

 were damaged when they reached me, and it was not possible therefore 

 to give from them a complete and precise description. 



However, through the kindness of Mr. E. Radcliffe, of the Forest 

 Service, who has procured me fresh material of the Termite in question, 

 I am now able to describe it thoroughly. 



Although I am preparing a monographic work upon the whole 

 family of Termitidae, I think it necessary to give here a full description 

 of the Himalayan Termopsis, as there are many details of structure 

 which could not be mentioned in the preliminary paper, and also as the 

 latter includes some erroneous statements owing to the bad state of 

 preservation of the specimens first examined by me. 



The genus Termop>sis (Heer) is characterized as follows : — 



Imago with antennae of 27-23 segments ; ocelli totally absent ; 

 epistoma not prominent ; pronotum nearly flat, narrower than the 

 head ; tibise with lateral spines j tarsi of peculiar structure : of four 

 completely distinct joints, but in reality of five joints, of which the 2nd 

 is but partly distinct from the first (see Fig. 3) ; a plantula between the 

 claws of the tarsi ; cerci long, of 8-5 joints ; styli present in the male, 

 well developed; wings large, loss than four times as long as broad;* 

 subcosta present in the front wings ; radius strongly developed, with 

 several branches to the costal border ; media running about the middle 

 of the wing ; t the membrana occupied by reticulated nervures. 



Soldier, very robust, with large, rectangular, flat head. Eyes 

 present and small, or rudimentary. Antennas of more than 20 segments. 



* The length of the wing being that of the membranous portion (not including the stump.) 

 f The terminology of the wing- venation here employed is that of Comstoek and Needham 

 now quite generalized. In my preliminary description of the Termopsis I made use of 

 Hagen's old names of the veins, I must thus give here their equivalents : costal 6o>-</er=Costn 

 of. Hagen, ra<£<!/s=:subcosta id., me<Zfa==Mediaaa id., c«&/7Ks=Subinediana id. The true 

 mbcosta was not considered by Hagen as one of the principal veins in the Termites. 



