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Head spherical; antennae 15- or 16-jointed, second joint longer 
than third, fourth joint ring-shaped; clypeus trapezoidal, an- 
terior border straight, boundary between anteclypeus and 
postclypeus indistinct ; pronotum much narrower than head, 
semilunar. 
Measurements of the worker. 
Length of body 
4.50 
Width of head 
1.15 
Width of pronotum 
1.00 
Distribution. — South China (Foochow and Amoy) ; Formosa; 
Kotosho (Botel Tobago Island) ; Riu Kiu Islands; Shikoku; Kiu- 
shiu; southern part of Honshu, chiefly the coasts along the 
Inland Sea. 
Subfamily LEUCOTERMITIN/E Holmgren 
Genus LEUCOTERMES Silvestri 
Leucotermes (Reticulitermes) flaviceps Oshima. 
Termes ( Leucotermes ) flavipes Oshima, Rep. Term. 1 (1909) 30, pi. 
1, figs. 4-8; Zool. Mag. Tokyo 22 (1909) 345. 
Leucotermes flavipes Shiraki, Trans. Ent. Soc. Jap. (1909) 231; 
Oshima, Rep. Term. 2 (1911) 3; Nawa, Insect World 15 (1911) 14. 
Leucotermes flaviceps Oshima, Rep. Term. 3 (1912) 74, pi. 1, fig. 
10; pi. 2, figs. 15-17; Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 8 (1913) 277. 
Leucotermes ( Reticulitermes ) flaviceps Oshima, Rep. Term. 4 (1914) 
2 . 
Imago. — Head chestnut brown, antennae and abdomen some- 
what darker ; pronotum yellow ; mesonotum and metanotum dark 
brown; femur dark; tibia and tarsus yellow; head, thorax, and 
abdomen densely covered with hairs. 
Head quadrate, posterior border rounded ; clypeus yellow, 
nearly twice as broad as long, slightly swollen, boundary between 
anteclypeus and postclypeus indistinct; labrum tongue-shaped, 
as long as broad; eyes rather small; ocellus separated from eye 
by a distance equal to its diameter; antennse very long, nearly 
twice as long as length of head, 17-jointed, second joint as long 
as fourth, third joint smallest, shorter than second; pronotum 
narrower than head, semilunar, anterior border nearly straight, 
posterior border rounded, weakly incurved at middle; posterior 
border of mesonotum and metanotum rounded; wing stumps 
subequal, the anterior scarcely covering base of posterior ; wings 
fuscous, with brownish costal margin; radius nerve of anterior 
wings near and parallel to costal not branched; median nerve 
midway between radius and cubitus, connected with the former 
