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The membrane of the wing occupied by a fine, distinct reticulation. 



Length of anterior wing (without the stump) 20 millimetres, breadth 

 of the same, 5*8 mm. 



Legs of moderate size ; femora broad ; tibiee with distinct lateral 

 spines ; tarsi of the typical generic structure, with a plantula between 

 the claws. 



Abdomen yellowish-brown. 



Oerci very long, much longer than in any other known termite, of 

 7 or 8 segments, the last segment often a little longer than the two 

 preceding ones together. The styli of the male are also the longest 

 known, unsegmented, longer than (or at least as long as) the last seg- 

 ment of the cerci. 



Soldier. — Length with mandibles 17-20 millimetres. 



Head large and robust, depressed, flat, somewhat longer than broad, 

 nearly rectangular, the sides being nearly straight and very slightly 

 converging anteriorly ; reddish brown, darker in front, this darker 



anterior portion of the head 

 being limited by the diverg- 

 ing branches of the Y 

 suture. The posterior border 



Fig. 2—Termopsis Wroughtoni. Soldier ol the head is distinctly 

 (enlarged). sinuate as shown in figure 2. 



The eyes are present, black, small, ovate, not at all prominent and 

 without facettee. These eyes, though well distinct, are of course at a 

 notably reduced stage. 



Antenna? long, of 23 or 25 segments (sometimes 22) ; the basilar 

 segment is large ; the 2nd a little longer than the 3rd, which is shorter 

 than the 4th ; the 5 following ones about increasing a little in size 

 towards the apex; those beyond becoming more slender towards the 

 apex. 



Labrum of moderate size, a little longer than broad. 



Mandibles extremely robust, a little (in some cases very little) shorter 

 than the head, black with the base often slightly reddish, the inner 

 margin of both the right and the left with very strong teeth of peculiar 

 irregular outline ; the mandibles are nearly straight, with the tip in- 

 curved and acute. 



Length of the head with mandibles 7-9*5 mm. ; mandibles 

 alone 3*6 — 4'5 mm. 



