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regions than to any other Ethiopian species. The only species which appears to be 

 somewhat intermediate between these and the other Ethiopian forms is N. fulleri, 

 separated from N. elegantulus in the soldier by the difference in profile and the lack 

 of small setae on the vertex, and in the alate, by the relatively smaller eyes, with the 

 ocelli more distant from them. 



Type Material. Cameroun : Victoria, 19. ix. 1893 (Bncholz), syntype soldier, 

 type colony, N. elegantulus (Sjostedt), A.M.N.H. 



Island of Principe : Roca Infante (L. Fea), syntype $ imago and soldier, type 

 colony, N. macrophthalmus (Silvestri), A.M.N.H. (other syntypes in Silvestri coll., 

 Lab. Zool., Sc. Agr., Portici). 



Congo : Lukula (H. Schouteden), syntype soldier, type colony, N. minusculus 

 (Sjostedt), A.M.N.H. (other syntypes in Congo Mus., Brussels) ; Kandolo, near 

 Stanleyville, 13.vii.1913 (H. Kohl), paratype soldiers, type colony, N. kohli Emerson, 

 A.M.N.H. and B.M.(N.H.) (Holotype in A.M.N.H.). 



Other Material. Guinea : Nimba Mountains, 1957, 3 vials (M. Lamotte), Inst. 

 Franc. d'Afr. Noire, Dakar. 



Ghana : Bobiri Forest, 23m. from Kumasi on Accra Road, 21. ii. 1959, and 9m. 

 from Nkoranza on Techiman Road, 29.iii.1959 (W. A. Sands). 



Nigeria : Western Region ; Sobo Plain, Obanokoro, 9.I, 7.^.1957 (W. 

 Wilkinson) ; 30m. from Ijebu-Ode on Benin Road, 12.xii.1957 (W. A. Sands). 

 Eastern Region ; 25m. from Enugu on Awgu Road, 2.ii.i957, Nkpoku, 12m. from 

 Port Harcourt on Owerri Road, 17.viii.1957, 8m. from Port Harcourt on Owerri 

 Road, 10.xii.1957, and Port Harcourt, 19.xii.1957 (W. Wilkinson). Northern 

 Region ; 18m. from Bida on Badeggi Road, 24.xii.1956, and Idu Forest, 20m. 

 from Abuja on Kern Road, 28.xii.1956 (W. A. Sands). 



Cameroun : Mbalmayo, 17.x. 1962 (G. Becker), own collection. 



Island of Principe : Roca Sundi, 16, 23.ix.1949 (G. R. Gradwell and D. Snow). 



Congo : Luluabourg, 28.viii.1913 (Callewaert) ; Malela, 4.viii.i9i5 (/. Bequaert) ; 

 Epulu, 17. v. 1948, 4 vials {A. E. Emerson), all in A.M.N.H. 



A total of 27 nest series were examined, and all material is in the British Museum 

 (Natural History) unless otherwise stated. 



This species is widely distributed throughout the West African and Congo forests, 

 but is never common. It has been recorded as building soft carton nests, but is 

 most frequently found in the nests of other genera, in rotting logs, or in narrow 

 runways on trees. The workings have a reticulate shagreen patterned lining of 

 black carton. 



Nasutitermes ferranti (Wasmann) 

 (Text-figs. 46-50; Map 3) 



Eutermes ferranti Wasmann, 191 1 : 167. Type locality : Congo, Kasai, Sankuru. 

 Eutermes {Eutermes) ferranti Wasmann ; Holmgren, 1912 : 62. 

 Eutermes ferranti Wasmann ; Sjostedt, 1926 : 310. 

 Nasutitermes ferranti (Wasmann) Snyder, 1949 : 276. 



