. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. THE SOLDIERLESS TERMITES OF AFRICA i6g larger, coloured as head; postclypeus chestnut-brown, labrum yellow-brown; frontal marks distinct, semicircular, flat or slightly depressed, brown; antennae brown. Pronotum, meso- and metanota chestnut-brown, transverse dark sutures weak on mesonotum, present on metanotum; femora and tibiae brown, tarsi yellow. Abdominal tergites brown, dorsal stigmata dark sepia-brown, sternites pale brown, yellow-brown in middle, ventral stigmata sepia-brown; cerci pale yellow-brown. Posterior margin of head
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entom Supp. THE SOLDIERLESS TERMITES OF AFRICA i6g larger, coloured as head; postclypeus chestnut-brown, labrum yellow-brown; frontal marks distinct, semicircular, flat or slightly depressed, brown; antennae brown. Pronotum, meso- and metanota chestnut-brown, transverse dark sutures weak on mesonotum, present on metanotum; femora and tibiae brown, tarsi yellow. Abdominal tergites brown, dorsal stigmata dark sepia-brown, sternites pale brown, yellow-brown in middle, ventral stigmata sepia-brown; cerci pale yellow-brown. Posterior margin of head capsule not quite evenly rounded, slightly undulating; ocelli pro- portionately rather small, separated from compound eyes by about three-quarters, up to slightly more than own least diameter; postclypeus weakly to moderately inflated, Pcl/W, 0-23-0-26, posterior margin bowed, not evenly rounded, median suture distinct. Apical teeth of mandibles short, La/Li, 0-54-0-60, Ra/Ri, 0-73-0-89; subsidiary marginal tooth of left mandible separated from molar prominence by distinct notch in surface view, complex ratio, , 5-90-7-84; points of apical and marginal teeth of right mandible in line, anterior edge of first marginal longer than that of second. Meso- and metanota fairly wide at constriction, M/W, 0-29-0-33. Pilosity of head capsule yellow-brown, pelt somewhat rough, slightly 415 417 418 Figs 411-418. Ateuchotevmes, imago mandibles. 411, 412, A. cienopher; 413, 414, A. nniricatus; 415, 416, A. pectinatus; 417, 418, A. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). London : BM(NH)
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