KEVISION OF THE JAPANESE TEEMITES. 



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number of individuals consisting of workers, soldiers and immature 

 nymphs. Once I opened a nest and found numerous neoteinic 

 queens, the ovaries of which contained full grown eggs, as the 

 study of sections demonstrate. 



11. JEtitevnies ÇEhitermes) kinoshitai, n. sp. 



(Text-fig. 33). 

 Specimens examined : — 



Sei. Coll., 

 Spec. No. 



Caste 



Preservation 



Locality 



Collector 



Date 



259 



I 



Ale. 



Kappanzan, Formosa 



Kanichi Kino- 



SHITA 



May '14 



Imago. 

 (Text-fig. 33). 



Colour. — Head dark brown ; labrum, post-clypeus, anterior angles 

 of the forehead and mouth parts rusty yellow. Antennae brownish. 

 Pronotum brownish yellow, with a T" saa P 3 d mark and shoulder 

 spots yellow. Meso- and metanotum yellowish, with hind portion 

 brown. Dorsal abdominal plates dark brown, ventral ones, especially 

 in the middle much paler, being almost rusty yellow. Legs rusty 

 yellow. Wings blackish brown, with darker veins. A faint yellow 

 line runs behind the radius-sector. 



Head. — Broadly oval, rather densely clothed partly with short 

 hairs and partly with long bristles. Fontanelle rather large, elongate- 

 oval. Area surrounding the fontanelle concave. Median suture 

 visible, but transverse one not distinct. — (Text-fig. 33, a). 



Antennae. — 15- jointed : 1st joint large, cylindrical ; 2nd also 

 cylindrical but much shorter and narrower than 1st ; 4th almost 



