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caste is very definitely dehiscent, many individuals in most nest-series having 

 ruptured between first and second tergites. Lectotypes of the junior synonyms 

 A. sanctus and A. mbazwanicus have been selected and labelled and are designated 

 below, together with that of a subspecies, warreni, wrongly attributed by Fuller 

 to A. mfolozii, which is a synonym of A. kilimandjaricus (Sjostedt). 



Type-material. Mirotermes (Cubitermes) natalensis form brevior Holmgren, 

 syntype £ imago, type-colony, Republic of South Africa: Natal, Zululand, 

 Mkosi, 1905 (/. Trdgdrdh) , in American Museum of Natural History (other syntypes 

 stated by Holmgren to be in Mus. Goteborg; these have not been examined and 

 therefore no lectotype has been selected). Anoplotermes sanctus Silvestri, LECTO- 

 TYPE 9 imago, with paralectotype $ and ^ imagos and workers from type-colony, 

 Angola: Sao Paulo de Loanda, 22.ii.1913 (F. Silvestri), in Silvestri Coll., Istituto 

 Entomologia di Agraria, Portici (other paralectotype $ imago in AMNH). Miro- 

 termes (Procubitermes) mbazwanicus Fuller, LECTOTYPE $ imago, Republic of 

 South Africa: Natal, Zululand, Mbazwane swamp, 4.x. 1923 (C. Fuller), in National 

 Collection of Isoptera, Pretoria (paralectotype, type-colony, in AMNH; other 

 paralectotypes, Durban, 8.ix.i920 (C. P. Van der Merwe), in N.C.I., Pretoria and 

 AMNH). Mirotermes {? Procubitermes) mfolozii form warreni Fuller, LECTOTYPE 

 $ imago, Republic of South Africa: Natal, Mont aux Sources, iv.1919 (E. Warren), 

 in National Collection of Isoptera, Pretoria. 



The specimens named as Mirotermes (Cubitermes) natalensis form brevior by 

 Holmgren, and Mirotermes (Procubitermes) mbazwanicus by Fuller were recognized 

 by Dr A. E. Emerson as belonging to Anoplotermes sensu lat. It is as a result of 

 his work that they are included here, since in Snyder (1949) they are catalogued 

 under Procubitermes. They would have been omitted from this monograph had 

 Dr Emerson not included them in a loan of type-material of Anoplotermes from the 

 AMNH. 



Other material. Republic of South Africa: Cape Province; Port St. Johns, 

 26. xi. 1950, Libode, 22.x. 1956, Butterworth, 21.x. 1956, and Elliotdale, 20.x. 1957 

 (W. G. H. Coaton); Flagstaff (three vials), 12-14. x. 1962, Herschel, 8.x, Maclear, 

 Qumbu, Mt Fletcher (three vials), 10. x, Matatiele (six vials) 10-ii.x, Mt Currie 

 (two vials), Mt Ayliffe, 12.x, Lusikisiki (five vials), 13-14. x, Tsolo, 15.x, Komgha 

 (seven vials), 21.x, East London (three vials), 22-23. x an d Wodehouse (two vials), 

 5-6.X.1962 (/. L. Sheasby & G. F. Pretorius). Orange Free State; Harrismith, 

 21.xii.1959 (P. C. Joubert); Parys, 22.xii.1960 (H. P. Nieman); Heilbron (three 

 vials) Kroonstad, 2.x, Lindley (two vials), Vrede, Reitz (three vials) 3.x, Smithfield, 

 4.x, Harrismith (five vials) 3-5. x, Senekal, Marquand, 6.x, Thaba 'Nchu, De Wets- 

 dorp, Winberg and 7.x, Wepener, 8.x. 1962 (/. L. Sheasby & G. F. Pretorius); 

 Hoopstad, 25.x. 1962 (W. Mohalo); Natal, Haviland Rail, xi.1918 (C. Fuller); 

 Hlabisa (five vials), 17. xi, Ubombo, 21. xi. 1955, Camperdown, 25.x, Lion's River, 

 Newcastle (two vials), 26.x. 1956 (W. G. H. Coaton); Pietermaritzburg, 5.X.1957 

 (D. Fletcher); Vryheid (two vials), 5.xii, Umvoti, 8.xii, Mapumulo (three vials), 

 Kranskop io.xii and Bergville, 20.xii.1959 (P. C. Joubert); Transvaal, De Wildt, 

 3.X.1915 and xi.1920, Pretoria, 7.X.1914, 29.X.1915, 21.X.1916 and 27.X.1917 (C. 



