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 Abdomen short and stout. 



Length of body 

 Width of head 

 „ pronotum 



Nymph. — Long and slender, white. Basal portion of clypeus 

 large, flat. Ocelli distant from the eyes by more than their 

 diameter. Antennse 14-jointed. Pronotum narrower than head, 

 its posterior margin somewhat excavated. 



Length of body... ... 5-5-6 mm. 



Width of head "72 „ 



,, of pronotum ... -65 ,, 

 Geographical Bistrihution. — British India: Bangalore. 



Collector's Report : — 



Bangalore, 30-10-1911. — " Li remarkably flat tunnels (trans 

 verse section oblong-ovate) constructed in pillars of mound of 

 0. hangalorensis . The tunnels extended further into solid ground 

 beyond hangalorensis-rxiouxidi ; there also the main nest apparently- 

 situated. " (Assmuth.) 



Note. — Eremotennes belongs to the Hamitermes-sevies and is,. 

 apart from the species just described, represented only by one other 

 species, viz., JEremotennes indicatus, Silv., from Tunis. It would be 

 interesting to know whether this genus — like Ifiro^ermes— contains 

 forms jumping by the aid of their mandibles ; in this case the 

 parallelism with Mirotermes would be nearly complete. 



MICROCEROTERMES SECTION. 



Gen. MICROOEEOTERMES, Silv. 



Microcerotermes tenuignathus, n. sp. 



Imago. — Not known. 



Soldier. — Head yellow, slightly tawny towards the front. Mandi- 

 bles brown. Abdomen white. 



Head very sparsely covered with hair. Abdominal tergites 

 rather densely hairy. 



Head rather thick, quadrate, with rounded angles, longer than 

 broad. Forehead sloping, slightly impressed. Fontanelle in hori- 

 zontal portion of head. Basal portion of clypeus lense-shaped. 

 Labrum tongue-shaped, rounded at tip. Mandibles rather long, 

 slender, somewhat falcate, with barely perceptible serrate teeth. 



