BY WALTER W . FROGGATT. 733 



As far as I know this species is very local in its distribution. 

 I have found several small lots in the above locality, forming 

 irregular galleries under dead logs, but I have never found them 

 anywhere else near Sydney. 



Termes errabundus, n.sp. 

 (Plate XXXIV., fig. 4.) 



Winged form unknown. 



Soldier. — Head bright ferruginous, clypeus pale yellow, jaws 

 black; antennae and mouth parts pale l>rownish-yellow; legs and 

 dorsal surface of the prothorax pale ochreous; rest dull white, 

 lightly covered with short hairs. Length 6 lines. Head slightly 

 longer than broad, convex on the summit, rounded behind, in the 

 centre, flattened behind the forehead, a scroll-like mark receives 

 a faint parallel suture from the base of the head; front of the 

 forehead rugose, with a dark coloured patch on either side ; 

 antennae 25-jointed, slender, tapering to the tips, and springing 

 fi'om a slight tubercule on the side of the head; 1st very large, 

 swelling out at the apex; 2nd smaller, rounded on the sides; 3rd. 

 4th smallest, annular ; 5th-19th moniliform ; 20th to the tip 

 pyriform, becoming smaller and more stalked to the terminal 

 one, which is much smaller than the others ; clypeus nearly 

 quadrate, lobed, broader than long; labrum large, a little broader 

 than long, narrow at the base, and fringed with hairs; jaws short, 

 stout, rounded, curving over each other at the tips, with a large 

 angular tooth about one-third from the tip, and a smaller one at 

 the base; palpi slender, longer than the jaws. Prothorax not as 

 broad as the head ; divided down the centre by a depression, 

 which forms the front into a rounded collar, and the apical half 

 into a semicircular raised ridge, coming to a rounded point on 

 either side; legs moderately long, stout, tibiaj armed with four 

 spines at tip; tarsi long; claws large; plantula noticeable; inner 

 edge of the thighs of forelegs covered with fine ferruginous 

 spines. Abdomen short and broad; anal appendices large, slightly 

 in front of the cerci; the tips of the four being nearly in a line. 



Worker. — Head pale yellow, with spots on the forehead, base 

 of jaws and tarsal claws ferruginous. Length 7 lines. Head 



