TERMITES FROM BRITISH INDIA. 787 



jihoi'ter than fourth, but equal in length to fifth. Pilosity abundant. 

 Pronotum very little bilobed anteriorl}^ 



Length of body ... ... 4 mm . 



Breadth of head... ... 1"15 ,, 



,, of pronotum ... -81 ,, 

 Note. — This species may possibly prove to be merel}^ a race of 

 0. Horni of Ce3^1on. 



Collector's Report : — 



Khandala, 21-1-1911.— " Termites in room where they had 

 ^i-aten up books and v^^oollen goods^ after covering them with 

 friable crust of red soil. E-oom on ground-floor; termites had 

 come up from underground through crack in cemented pavement." 

 (Assmuth.) 



7-5-1911. — " Termites in flower pot into which they had 

 found their way, as it had probabty been standing in garden over 

 underground nest. Narrow tunnels interrupted at short intervals 

 by small extensions or " chambers " — the size of the latter generally 

 not exceeding that of a monkey-fig — found all through mould in 

 flower pot. Inner walls of tunnels rough, neither smoothed, as 

 with Odordotermes, nor blackened, as with Butermes hiformis.''' 

 (Assmuth.) 



25-5-1911. — " Under stone in deep ravine." (Assmuth.) 

 8-6-1911. — "Under stone the surroundings of which 

 clearly showed that this is one of the several kinds of white ants 

 which, during night, cover the surface of ground in neighbourhood 

 of nest with friable galleries and more or less extensive coatings 

 of red earthy material ; the termites then eat what they have 

 covered — dry grass, leaves, wood, etc., — and only as much of it 

 as they have covered, leaving any poi^tions outside the crust 

 untouched." (Assmuth.) 



Gen. MICROTERMES, Wasm. 

 Microtermes obesi, n. sp. 



Imago, — Very close to M. sindensis, Desn. ; chiefly differentiated 

 from this species by the dimensions which are somewhat smaller 



^ It is remarkable that cotton g'oods lying' in same shelf were covered by 

 termites with g'alleries, but otherwise left altogether intact. 



