TWO SPECIES OF TERMITES FROM SINGAPORE 



By Masamitsu Oshima 

 {Of the Institute of Science, Government of Formosa) 



In July, 1912, I received from Dr. C. Inagaki, of the Taihoku 

 Hospital, and from Mr. J. Kondo, architect of the Formosan 

 Government, a collection of termites made by them in Singapore. 

 A study of the material showed that it represented two species, 

 one of which is apparently an undescribed form. 



Coptotermes gestroi Wasmann. 



Imago. — Reddish brown above, head darker; head round, 

 densely covered with hairs ; eyes round and prominent ; ocelli oval, 

 separated from eye by a distance less than their short diameter; 

 fontanelle indistinct, dotted, slightly elevated; antennae 21- 

 jointed, 2d joint longer than 3d; pronotum semicircular, slightly 

 broader than head, emarginate in the middle of posterior border. 

 Wing hyaline, costal margin pale brown; 11 mm. long, 3.5 mm. 

 broad; radius running near to, and parallel with, costa; median 

 nerve with 1 or 2 branches in apical area, scarcely reaching to 

 tip of wing and running nearer to cubitus than to radius ; cubi- 

 tus with 7 branches. 



Measurement. Mm. 



Length with wings 15.00 



Length without wings 8.50 



Length of head 1.56 



Width of head 1.50 



Length of pronotum 0.94 



Width of pronotum 1.56 



Soldier. — Head reddish yellow, suborbicular, provided with 

 long hairs; sides converging anteriorly; a broad prominence 

 above epistome ending in a large foramen; antennae 14-jointed, 

 2d joint longer than 3d; labrum lanceolate, apex white and 

 pointed, with a few small hairs, reaching to middle of mandibles ; 

 mandibles 1 mm. long, saber shaped, with incurved piercing tip, 

 cutting edge smooth; gula narrow below, gradually widening 

 toward apex, anterior border narrowed ; pronotum semicircular, 

 with bilobed anterior border, emarginate in the middle of pos- 



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