ETHIOPIAN N ASUTITERM1 I I N A E ^5 



This is the commonest and most widely distributed species of Nasutitermes in 

 Africa. It is found throughout the forest areas in West Africa and the Congo, and 

 in most forest outliers, or riverain gallery forests, in the adjacent savannah areas. 



In none of the material examined of N. latifrons was an arboreal nest recorded of 

 the type found in N. arborum, N. lujae, or N. schoutedeni. The great majority of 

 records are from dead logs, hollow or rotten tree trunks, and the mounds of other 

 genera such as Cubitermes, Procubitermes, Thoracotermes, and Microcerotermes. 

 Sjostedt (1926) recorded a nest illustrated by Hegh (1922 : 485, fig. 343), as belong- 

 ing to this species, but the figure is a photograph of a typical mound of Thoraco- 

 termes. Runways up trees are frequently recorded, but the nest can only raivlv. 

 if ever, be arboreal. 



Nasutitermes lujae (Wasmann) sp. rev. 

 (Text-figs. 20, 21, 88 94, 213, 214: Map in 



Eutermes lujae Wasmann, 1911 (August] : [68 type locality : Congo, Kasai, Sankuru. 

 sp. rev. [ex syn. N. maculiventris (Sjostedt, [926 



Eutermes ekunduensis Sjostedt, [911b (December) : t6 type locality : ( s.meroun, Ekundu. 

 syn. n. 



Eutermes {Eutermes) lujae Wasmann ; Holmgren, 1912 : 62 



Eutermes (Eutermes) ekunduensis Sjostedt ; Holmgren, [912 : 62 



Eutermes (Eutermes) nanus Sjostedt, [924 : 41. Type locality : Congo, Barumbu. 



Eutermes (Eutermes) impetu Sjostedt, [924b 193 Type locality : Republii of Congo, 

 I '.i,i//,i\ ille syn. n. 



Nasutitermes (Nasutitermes) bequaerti Emerson, [928 \i<> New name proposed [or E. nanus 

 Sjostedt syn. n. 



Nasutitermes (Nasutitermes) santschii Emerson, [928 pj Type locality ' >ngo, Stanley- 

 ville, syn. n. 



Nasutitermes (Nasutitermes) torquatus (Sjostedt) ; Emerson, [928 : pi 



Nasutitermes bequaerti Emerson ; Snyder, 1040 : 267 



Nasutitermes ekunduensis (Sjostedt) Snyder, [949 : 275. 



Nasutitermes impetus (Sjostedt) Snyder, [949 : 270. 



Nasutitermes santschii Emerson ; Snyder, [949 : 297 



Imago. Head capsule dark sepia brown, postclypeus slightly paler, brown Labium yellow- 

 brown. Antennae brown, Pronotum dark sepia brown, meso- and metanota, pleural and 

 ventral thoracic sclerites brown. Legs yellow-brown, brown at ends oi femora and bases o\ 

 tibiae. Abdominal tergites d.n! brown, sternites sepia brown laterally, shading to pale 



brown in middle. Wings translucent pale brown, venation sepia blown 



Posterior margin of head behind eyes distinctly less than semi-circular ; fontanelle variable, 

 generally inconspicuous, from a pale slit, sometimes weakly bifurcate in front, to a smooth flat 

 p. Mi h without setae, of same colour as rest of head capsule, or sometimes slightly depressed 

 posteriorly ; eyes moderately prominent in proportion to own diameter, but not large relative 

 to head width, (W/E index 3-0-3-5) nearly circular, outline slightly angular ; ocelli small, 

 separated from eyes by slightly less to distinctly more than own least diameter ; postclypeus 

 rather weakly inflated, width 32 to 3-7 times length, anterior margin nearly straight, posterior 

 margin convex, rounded, very slightly sinuate towards outer corners ; antennae 15 segmented, 

 II longer than IV, IV slightly longer than V, V longer than III. 



Cerci of $ distinctly shorter than width across base, mamilliform. 



