NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF TERMITES FROM LUZON, 

 OBTAINED BY R. C. MCGREGOR 



By Masamitsu Oshima 

 (Of the Government Institute of Science, Formosa) 



ONE TEXT FIGURE 



In 1916 Mr. R. C. McGregor, of the Bureau of Science, Manila, 

 made a small collection of termites in and near Manila, Luzon, 

 which he very kindly forwarded to me for examination. In the 

 present paper is given a record of this collection, with descrip- 

 tions of three new species : namely, Calotermes malatensis, Euter- 

 mes luzonensis, and Eutermes balintattacensis. 



Calotermes (Neotermes) malatensis sp. nov. 



Imago. — Head reddish brown, pronotum, labial palpi, and an- 

 tennse somewhat paler; mesonotum, metanotum, and abdominal 

 tergites yellowish brown ; legs pale yellowish brown. Head spar- 

 ingly pilose; long spiny hairs mingled with shorter ones on the 

 pronotum; abdominal tergites beset with delicate hairs and pro- 

 vided with a series of long spiny hairs. 



Head round; antennge 19-jointed, second joint nearly as long 

 as third, fourth joint shorter than third; eye large, prominent; 

 ocellus in contact with eye; postclypeus indistinctly separated 

 from forehead ; anteclypeus trapezoidal, its anterior border nearly 

 straight; labrum tongue-shaped, slightly longer than broad; 

 pronotum quadrilateral, vaulted above, anterior border nearly 

 straight, posterior border arcuate and slightly curved at middle, 

 anterolateral corners depressed; mesonotum and metanotum 

 narrower than pronotum, their posterior borders nearly straight ; 

 anterior wing stumps very much larger than the posterior, reach- 

 ing beyond the middle of the latter ; wings hyaline, veins yellowish 

 brown ; subcostal nerve of the anterior wing short, radius reach- 

 ing to the basal third of costal margin, radius sector with 

 six branches, median nerve runs near and parallel to the former, 

 bending slightly at the base, cubitus reaches to tip of wing, with 

 about ten branches, of which the proximal six are stronger ; sub- 

 costal nerve absent in the posterior wing, radius reaching to 

 the costal margin beyond the middle, radius sector with four 



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