REVISION OF THE JAPANESE TERMITES. 



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Length (in m.m.) 



Breadth (in m.m.) 



Pronotum 



0.47—0.5 



0.83— 0.9 



Pore wing-case 



1.0 — 2.0 



0.3 — 0.6 



Neoteinic queen. 

 (PL II. Fig. 14; Text-fig. 16). 



Colour. — Head, thorax and abdominal plates yellowish, mandi- 

 bles and each side of the clypeus brown, the rest whitish. 



Head. — Bound, summit rather 

 flat, sloping down on the clypeus and 

 labrum. Hairs scanty. — (Text-fig. 

 16, a). 



Antennae. — 15-1 7 -jointed. In 

 the specimen with 16 joints : 1st 

 joint large, almost twice as long as 

 broad ; 2nd smaller, nearly as long 

 as broad ; 3rd-4th annulate, very 

 short ; 5th-6th orbiculate ; the rest 

 turbinate, with the exception of the 



last which is elongate-OVal. (Text- Text-fig. 16. Leucotermes {Heti- 



culitermes) speratus. Neoteinic queen. 

 Hg. 10, DJ. a> Head; b, Antenna; c, Labrum ; d. 



Eyes. — Bound, flat, lightly ^ ht ^^soe; e > Leffc m ^ le : f > 



j o ./ Pronotum ; g, Mesonotum ; n, Metano- 



brOWn Coloured, Very Slightly pro- tum; i, 4th ventral abdominal plate. 



(a, f— ix20; b— ex33). 



jectmg on sides. 



Labrum. — A little broader than long, forming semicircle in 

 front and slightly converging posteriorly on sides. Surface with 

 several hairs scattered. — (Text-fig. 16, c). 



Clypeus. — The limit between the ante- and post-clypeus not 



