BY WALTER W. FROGGATT. 739 



Head longer than broad, convex, flattened on the forehead ; 

 €yes large, round,' slightly projecting; ocelli large, in front of the 

 eyes; antennae 20-jointed, springing from a cleft in front of the 

 eyes; 1st joint stout, 2nd smaller, 3rd smallest, 4th-20th monili- 

 form, elongated at tip; clypeus convex behind, narrow, rounded 

 and lobed; labrura large, long, rounded at the tip; jaws short, 

 broad, with 4 shai'p teeth at apex, the second smallest, and a large 

 double tuberculate tooth at the base. Prothorax as broad as the 

 head, a little broader than long, truncate in front, slightly arcuate 

 in the centre, sides rounded, convex behind. Wings three times 

 as long as broad, ovate at the extremities ; scapular shield 

 stout, with the cross suture not so transverse as usual, showing 

 the base of 4 branching nervures; costal and subcostal nervures 

 running parallel (not so close as in most species) to the tip; 

 median nervure slender, crossing through the upper portion of the 

 wing, with a small bifurcation at the extremity ; submedian 

 nervure dividing the wing through the centre, with two short 

 stout oblique nervures at the base, and from 8 to 10 finer oblique 

 nervures occupying the lower half of the wing; the whole of the 

 wing covered with very fine scales giving it a whitish appear- 

 ance. Abdomen of a uniform width to the tip; cerci small. 

 //« J.— Adelaide, S.A. (Mr. J. G. O. Tepper). 

 This species was described from specimens obtained at Adelaide. 

 Hagen redescribed it in his Monograph, stating he had seen 

 pinned specimens of both sexes; he also adds that the workers 

 and soldiers described by Walker with the winged ones have no 

 relation to this species, but are those of an undescribed species of 

 Calofermes. 



My description is taken from a number of carded specimens, 

 obtained by Mr. Tepper, flying round a lamp at night; but though 

 it is the common winged termite about Adelaide, I have been 

 unable to obtain soldiers and workers from a nest that I was 

 satisfied belonged to the winged ones, but hope to do so before 

 the season is over. Mr. Tepper believes that this species does 

 not form any nests, but lives underground, and is the one locally 

 destructive to houses and woodwork. 



