94 W. A. SANDS 



Type-material. Anoplotermes quietus Silvestri, LECTOTYPE 9 imago, para- 

 lectotype nymphs and workers from type-colony, Ghana: Aburi, 20.1.1913 

 (F. Silvestri), in Silvestri Coll., Istituto di Entomologia Agraria, Portici, Naples; 

 other paralectorype $ imago in AMNH. 



Other material. Sierra Leone: Kenema, 14.1.1958 (W. Wilkinson). Guinea: 

 Mount Nimba (nine vials), viii, ix.1946 and viii-x.1951 (M. Lamotte). Ivory 

 Coast: Banco Forest, 5°22'N., 4°03'W. (three vials), 6.i, 10. i and 10.ii.1962, Bouafte 

 Forest, 26. ii. 1962, Lamto, 5°52'N., 4°46'W., 8.VLI964 (E. Ernst); Banco Forest, 

 29.vii.1963 (C. Noirot); Youhouli, 10 km N. of Dabou (two vials), 16-18. iv.1963 

 (P. Bodot); N'Douci, Lamto, 25. hi, Banco Forest, 21. viii. 1950 (G. Jo sens). Ghana: 

 6 m. N. of Wa on Lawra Road, 19. hi, 52 m. S. of Wa on Sawla Road, 20. hi, 3 m. 

 from Larabanga on Sawla Road, 22. hi, 12 m. from Damongo on Tamale Road, 

 24. hi, and 7 m. S. of Akumadam on Wenchi-Kumasi Road, i.iv.1959 (W. A. Sands). 

 Nigeria: Eastern Region; Aba, 27. xh. 1956, 47 m. from Enugu on Onitsha Road, 

 21. i, Onitsha, 5.iv, Port Harcourt 2.v, and 40 m. from Port Harcourt on Owerri 

 Road, 19. vi. 1957 (W. Wilkinson); Western Region; Olokemeji, near Ibadan, xi.1912 

 (F. Silvestri) (listed in original description, hence paralectotypes not from type- 

 colony), Inst. Ent. Agr., Portici; Northern Region, 18 m. from Kaduna on Zaria 

 Road, 8.xh.i956, Riom, 14.il, Kwei, 4 m. W. of Jos (two vials), 29. hi, 32 m. from 

 Jos on Kaduna Road, 5.iv, 55 m. from Damaturu on Potiskum Road, 5.VL1957 

 and Samaru, near Zaria, 18.V.1959 (W. A. Sands). Democratic Republic of 

 Congo: St. Gabriel, near Stanleyville, (three vials), 1916 (H. Kohl); Stanleyville, 

 26. v and 3 km from Leopoldville (Kinshasa) on Thysville Road, 16. vi. 1948 

 (A. E. Emerson); Yangambi, 30.V.1948 (W. Emerson) AMNH; Garamba, 15.ih.1951 

 (H. de Saeger); Kivu District, Wangi (two vials), 2-3. xi. 1963 (E. Ernst); Mayumbe 

 District, Luki, 19.iv.1965 (^4. Bouillon); Mondongo District, Lisala, 30. ix. 1966 

 (/. Ruelle). Rwanda: Bugesera, 15.xi.1963 (A Bouillon). Congo (Brazzaville:) 

 13 km W. of Brazzaville, 8.VL1948 (A. E. Emerson), AMNH. 



A total of 51 nest-series of this species have been examined, and material is in 

 the BMNH except where stated otherwise. More is known of its biology than of 

 any other African member of the group. A . quietus has been described by a number 

 of authors as making small 'nests' of a few chambers on twigs or creepers a little 

 above ground level in rain forest. One such was illustrated by Emerson (1928). 

 The 'nest' is sometimes plastered on the side of a tree-trunk. In open savanna 

 this species is commonly found in the mounds of Cubitermes spp. The very wide 

 distribution of A. quietus from the Western Guinean Savanna to the southern 

 Congo forest is only exceeded by one species of another genus, Alyscotermes 

 kilimandjaricus (Sjostedt) . 



Other Species 

 Astalotermes empodius sp. n. 



(Text-figs 202, 203, 208, 209 & 214-219; PI. 1, fig. 9) 



Imago. Head capsule dark sepia-brown, very dark above ocelli; fontanelle short oval, half 

 size of ocelli or less, depressed, yellow-white to brown; medial spot short oval, very slightly 



