724 AUSTRALIAN TElUUTlhJ:, 



until all the workei's have found shelter. They are at once 

 recognizable by the globule of milk-like secretion above the jaws, 

 which they eject at the first alamn. The winged forms are found 

 in the nests in October; a queen is always present, and com- 

 plementary queens are sometimes met with. 



tiab. — Sydney, Shoalhaven, Blue Mountains, N.S.W., and 

 Southport, Queensland (W. W. Froggatt); Uralla, N.S.W. (Mr. 

 G. McD. Adamson) ; Gunbower, Vic. (Mr. G. J. Perrin) ; Kal- 

 goorlie, AV.A. (Mr. G. W. Froggatt). 



This species has a very wide range in this colony and Queens- 

 land ; it both forms nests, and is commonly found under logs, 

 tree stumps, and stones. My Victorian and West Australian 

 specimens were obtained under logs. 



Termes ferox, n sp. 

 (Plate XXXIV., tigs. 1, la, 16.) 



Upper surface castaneous; underside of the abdomen ochreous; 

 legs and antenmie lighter coloured; wings dark fuscous, nervures 

 brown; very hairy and rather slender in form. Length to tip of 

 the wings 5^, body '2\ lines. 



Head small, spherical, as long as broad, rounded behind, and 

 slightly flattened on the forehead. Eyes small, round, projecting; 

 ocelli small, elongate-oval in front of the eyes. Antenn;\! 16- 

 jointed, springing from a cleft in front of the eyes; 1st large, 

 stout cylindrical; '2\\d shorter; 3rd smallest; 4th-9th hemispherical, 

 increasing in size to the tip; 10th-12th turbinate; the terminal 

 ones more stalked. Clypeus large, convex, arcuate behind, 

 truncate in front with distinct median suture, rounded on the 

 sides. Labrum large, broad and rounded in front; jaws short 

 and l)road, with four sliarp angular teeth at the apex and a 

 tuberculate one at the base. Prothorax not as wide as the head, 

 longer than broad, heart-shaped, arcuate in the centre of basal 

 margin, and sloping round the sides to the apex, flattened in the 

 centre and depressed on the sides ; legs short ; thighs rather 

 slender; tibite short, broadest at the tip with two stout ochreous 

 spines; tarsi very hairy. Wings slender, rounded at the tips, 

 four times as long as broad; scapular shield small, angular, with 



