742 AUSTRALIAN TERMITID.H, 



Soldiers with nasuti or pike-shaped heads furnished with a 

 chamber connected with the snout through which they can eject 

 a drop of honey-Hke fluid; very small, and much more numerous 

 in the nests in proportion to the workers than in other genera. 



The members of this genus construct regular nests over tree 

 stumps, grass, t^'c, and also rounded nests on the trunks or 

 branches of trees connected b}'^ covered galleries leading up from 

 the roots of the tree. Only a few species form irregular galleries 

 under stones and logs. 



The members of this genus have a world-wide range, but are 

 most numerous in the tropics. Over thirty species have been 

 described, more than two-thirds of which come from South and 

 Central America. 



Two fossil species have been described from Europe by Heer 

 and Ha.een. 



EUTERMBS MAGNUS, n.Sp. 



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(Plate XXXV., fig. 6.) 



Dark reddish-brown, the legs and basal portion of abdominal 

 segments lighter-coloured, the undersurface ochreous, the head 

 darkest, thickly covered with coarse hairs; the wings light ferru- 

 ginous-brown with the costal and subcostal nervures darker. 

 Length to the tip of the wings 1 4 lines, to the tip of the body 8 

 lines ; breadth across the shoulders H lines. 



Head rounded, swelling out and broadest behind the ej'es, 

 flattened on the summit, deeply arcuate behind the clypeus and 

 forming an angular point on either side; eyes very large, round, 

 and projecting on the sides, rather coarsely faceted; ocelli large, 

 reniform, in front of the eyes; antenna? composed of 16 joints, 

 stout and very hirsute; 1st joint large, cylindrical, springing from 

 cavity beyond the inner margin of the eyes; 2nd and 3rd smaller; 

 4th to 15th turbinate, but becoming more cylindrical and less 

 stalked to the tip; 16th elongate-oval; clypeus large, broad, 

 rounded, and with slight median suture; clypeus narrow at the 

 base, swelling out on the sides and rounded in front; palpi stout 

 and very hirsute; jaws large, with two curved pointed teeth at 



