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branches ; median nerve starts from the middle of radius, cubitus 

 with about nine branches. 



mm. 



Length of body with wings 15.50 



Length of body without wings 7.50-9.00 



Length of anterior wing 11.00 ■ 



Length of head 1.56 



Width of head 1.50 



Width of pronotum 1.78-1.87 



Length of pronotum 1.09-1.18 



Soldier. — Head reddish brown; anteclypeus yellow; antennas 

 reddish brown, paler anteriorly ; mandibles blackish brown ; pro- 

 notum pale yellow ; mesonotura, metanotum, and abdomen straw- 

 colored, the latter mottled with milky spots. Head sparingly 

 pilose; sternites moderately pilose; on the abdominal tergites 

 long spiny hairs mingled with shorter hairs. 



Head cylindrical, sides slightly converging anteriorly, posterior 

 border rounded; antennse 15-jointed, second joint incurved, cone- 

 shaped, and nearly as long as third, fourth 

 and fifth joints subequal, much shorter than 

 third; upper border of antennal fossa pro- 

 jecting laterally, overhanging the proximal 

 joint of antennse; rudimentary eye oval, 

 situated behind the antennal fossa; no fon- 

 tanelle ; postclypeus not separated from fore- 

 head, a series of spiny hairs along its 

 anterior border; anteclypeus quadrilateral. 



Fig. 1. Calotermes mala- ,-,,■, -,■,■, ^ 



tensis sp. nov., soldier's anterolateral corners rounded ; labrum 

 mandibles, o, left; b. tongue-shapcd, sHghtly broader than long, 

 with a cluster of long hairs at the tip ; man- 

 dibles stout, with piercing incurved tip, right mandible v.dth two 

 subequal, triangular teeth, left mandible with three teeth, the 

 apical one pointed, the second and the third broad; pronotum 

 quadrilateral and vaulted above, anterior border nearly straight, 

 lateral borders convex, posterior border slightly curved at middle ; 

 mesonotum and metanotum much narrower than pronotum, with 

 rounded posterior borders. 



mm. 



Length of body . 13.00 



Length of head with mandible 5.33 



Length of head without mandible 3.53 



Width of head 2.33 



Width of pronotum _ 2.61 



Length of pronotum 1.56 



Locality. — Luzon, Manila, Malate, October 15, 1916, from a 

 decayed limb of a small tree, Samanea saman Merrill. 



