210 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Soldier with the head ochreous, more ferruginous towards 

 the jaws ; antennae bright-yellow, with the apices of the joints 

 pale. The rest dull-white. Length, 6 mm. 



Worker with the head pale-yellow, the rest dull-white. 

 Length, 4 mm. 



Locality. — Auckland {Broun). 



Calotermes insularis. 



Termes insularis, Walker, Cat. Neuroptera Brit. Mus., part iii., 

 p. 521 (1853); White, Zool. "Erebus" and "Terror," 

 Insects, pi. 7, fig. 11 (1874). Calotermes insularis, Hagen, 

 Cat. Termitina in Brit. Mus., p. 6 (1858) ; Froggart, Pro. 

 Linn. Soc. of N.S.W., 2nd series, vol. xxi., p. 524, pi. 

 XXXV., fig. 4 (1897). 



General colour bright ferruginous ; wings hyahne, nervures 

 light brownish-yellow. Length to tip of wing, 23 mm. ; to end 

 of the body, 5 mm. ; expanse of wings, 38-43 mm. The wings 

 are much longer than in the last species. 



Localities.— '^evf Zealand (British Museum) and Victoria. 

 The type specimens were collected in New Zealand by 

 Dr. Sinclair, but it does not appear to have been taken again 

 by Captain Broun. Mr. Froggart has determined one speci- 

 men from the Melbourne Museum with it on account of the 

 very long wings. Walker, in his description of the types, 

 says that the wings are nearly twice the length of the body ; 

 and he gives the dimensions as length of the body 3| lines 

 (8 mm.), expanse of the wings 19 lines (41 mm.). 



Genus Stolotekmes, Hagen (1858). 



Head large, circular ; eyes oval, small, with coarse facets : 

 ocelli present; antennae 12- to 14-jointed. Prothorax heart- 

 shaped. Tarsi without plantula ; the first joint as long as 

 those following. Neuration of the wings as in Calotermes. 



Distribution. — Tasmania and New Zealand. 



Stolotermes ruflceps. 



Stolotermes ruficeps, Brauer, Eeise der " Novara," Neuroptera, 



p. 46 (1868) ; Hudson, Man. N.Z. Entomology, p. 107, 



pi. 16, figs. 1-lc (1892) ; Froggart, Pro. Linn. Soc. of 



N.S.W., 2nd series, vol. xxi., p. 538, pi. 36, figs. 2, 2a. 



General colour dark reddish -brown, the under -surface 



much hghter; bases of the joints of the antennae fuscous. 



Length to the tip of the wings, 12 mm. ; to the end of the 



body, 7 mm. 



Soldier. — Head bright - yellow, ferruginous towards the 

 apex ; jaws black ; upper surface of the thorax brownish- 

 yellow, the rest dull-white. Length, 7-11 mm. 

 Localities. — Auckland and Wellington. 



