THE SOLDIERLESS TERMITES OF AFRICA 



157 



Left mandible, apical to first marginal (La) 005 

 Left mandible, first to third marginal (Li) . 010 

 Left mandible, third marginal to molar 



(L m ) ...... 004 



Right mandible, apical to first marginal 



(Ra) 005 



Right mandible, first to second marginal 



(Ri) 008 



Right mandible, second marginal to molar 



(Km) 0-04 



The comparisons of A. stolidns with other species and genera having been made 

 under the generic heading, it remains to add that the abdomen of the worker caste 

 has at least a tendency to be dehiscent. 



Holotype $ imago, paratype <J and $ imagos and workers from type-colony, 

 Democratic Republic of Congo: Epulu River, Camp Putnam, 12.V.1948 

 {A. E. Emerson, Coll. No. 18) in American Museum of Natural History. (Other 

 paratype $ and $ imago and workers from type-colony in BMNH.) 



Other paratype material. Nigeria: Eastern Region (W. Wilkinson) in British 



390 



392 



393 



Figs 390-399. Apagotermes stolidns. 390, 391, front and side views of imago head 

 capsule; 392, 393, imago mandibles; 394, 395, worker ditto; 396, mesenteric-proctodeal 

 junction showing attachment of malpighian tubules and position of malpighian knot; 

 397-399, views of enteric valve seating. 



