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edly swollen; antennae 16-jointed, 2d joint longer than 3d, 4th 

 joint nearly half as long as 3d; pronotum semilunar, anterior 

 border elevated. 



Mm. 

 Length of body 4.20 



Width of head 1.25 



Width of pronotum 0.59 



Habitat. — Luzon, Laguna, Sarai, near Paete (McGregor), 

 June, 1915. 



METATERMITID^ 

 Genus TERMES (L.) Holmgren 

 Termes (Macrotermes) manilanus Oshima. Plate I, figs. 3-5. 



Termes (Macrotermes) manilanus Oshima, Ann, Zool. Jap. (1914), 

 8, 565. 



Imago. — Body chestnut-brown, paler on ventral side; basal 

 portion of clj^eus yellow ; antennae, T-shaped patch on pronotum, 

 anterolateral corners of the same, anterior border of mesonotum 

 and metanotum brownish yellow. Head sparingly pilose ; abdo- 

 minal tergites provided with subequal hairs; labrum, pronotum, 

 and wing stumps densely pilose. 



Head broadly oval, sides slightly converging anteriorly, some- 

 what flattened ; eyes very large, prominent ; ocelli separated from 

 eye by a distance equal to their radius ; f ontanelle indistinct, 

 slightly elevated ; basal portion of clypeus very large, shorter than 

 half of the width, markedly swollen ; antennae 19-jointed, 3d joint 

 slightly longer than 2d, 4th joint shorter than 3d; pronotum 

 semicircular, broader than head, anterior border concave, poste- 

 rior border weakly curved at middle ; mesonotum and metanotum 

 as broad as pronotum, their posterior borders concave; wing's 

 yellowish brown, with yellowish costal band, densely pilose; 

 median nerve of anterior wing runs near to cubitus, starting 

 from the wing stump, branched in the middle area of wing, with 

 about three branches; cubitus with about seven branches, of 

 which the proximal ones are stronger. 



Mm. 



Length of body with wing 27.00 

 Length of body without wing 12-14.00 



Length of head 1.86 



Width of head 2.00 



Width of pronotum 2.33 



Length of pronotum 1.53 



Length of anterior wing 24.00 



Habitat — Luzon, Manila (Banks) , December 10, 1911 ; Lagu- 

 na, Paete (McGregor) , August 5, 1915, Sarai (McGregor) , June, 

 1915. 



