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Pronotum narrower than the head, nearly flat, the anterior nun gin 

 irregularly convex, the postero-lateral margins converging, the posterior 

 margin nearly straight. Meso- and metanotnm as broad as the pronotum, 

 their posterior margins subconvex; metanotum shorter than the 

 mesonotum which is almost as long as the pronotum. The, meso- 

 thoracic and metathoracic epimera have the peculiar form of triangular 

 appendices, externally free, prominent lobes. These I erroneously 

 described in my former paper as wing rudiments, and, in fact, in the 

 shrivelled specimens I had then under the eyes they quite looked like 

 small alar lobes of the meso- and metanotum, but in well preserved 

 specimens it is at once evident that they are lateral pieces of the thorax, 



peculiarly modified epimera. Legs 

 robust, femora broad ; tibiie with dis- 

 tinct lateral spines, tarsi without 

 plantulse. Abdomen rather long. 



Fig. 6. — rcrmopsis II rong/Uoni. l a 



Tarsus of a Soldier (much enlarged). yellowish grey. 



The cerci are slender and of very great length, nearly as long as the 

 tibiae of the intermediate legs (sometimes a little longer, sometimes a 

 little shorter) consisting of 6 or 7 long segments, the last one the 

 longest. In some cases the cerci appear to have 5 segments only, but 

 there are then always traces of a division of the first one. 



Styli very large, longer than the last segment of the cerci. 



Amongst the specimens collected by Mr. Eadcliffe, there are numer- 

 ous nymphs 11 mm. long, with more or less developed wing buds, 

 and also a number of specimens similar in shape to the nymphs, 

 10-11 mm. long, with distinct scars at the posterior borders of the 

 meso- and metanotum, as if the wing buds had been broken there. 

 These individuals are perhaps used as workers ; their head is a little 

 larger than that of the nymphs. 



All nymphal individuals have the peculiar lobed epimera at the meso- 

 and metathorax like the soldiers, but not the winged Imagos. 



There can be no doubt that this species really belongs to the genus 

 in which I have placed him, all the important characters are typical ; bu 

 on account of several peculiarities (form of the eyes in the Imago, wing- 

 stumps, etc.) I have recently established for him a distinct subgenus, 

 Archotermopsis (see Desneux, Termitidce in " Genera Insectorum," 

 XXV, 1904, p. 13.) 



Habitat. — Kashmir. Valley. 



