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the tip, two smaller angular ones near the centre and the edge 

 towards the base finely serrate. Prothorax not so broad as the 

 head, thickly covered with stout hairs, concave in front, rounded 

 and narrow on the sides and rounded behind, rather flattened on 

 the summit, a dark median suture through the centre of the meso- 

 and metathorax. Legs robust, modei-ately long and very hairy, 

 thighs slightly curved; tibite long, thickly covered with stiff spiny 

 hairs, W'ith two long spines at the apex; tarsi slender, with a fine 

 spine at the apex of the first 3 joints as well as a thick coating of 

 hairs; the 4th joint and tarsal claws large. Wings large, slightly 

 more than three times as long as broad, rounded at the 

 tip; scapular plate small, short, depressed on costal edge at the 

 cross suture, the costal and subcostal nervures robust, runninsr 

 close together to the tip of the wing, the base of the first and the 

 lower edge of the latter finely lined with yellow, the median 

 nervure running through the upper half of the wing, with several 

 fine nervelets branching out from its upper edge towards the sub- 

 costal, and forked at the tip; submedian nervure running parallel 

 to the median but turning down behind the bifurcation of the 

 formei% with four stout convex nervures and six slender ones, the 

 last forming a broad fork. Abdomen large, elongate-oval, 

 broadest in the middle, the abdominal plates long, rounded at the 

 tips and thickly covered with short hairs; cerci short, stout and 

 cylindrical. 



Queen. — Abdomen one inch in length and 3| lines in diameter, 

 of a general white colour, the chitinous [ilatesdark brown, covered 

 with coarse hairs, and the intersegmental membranes covered 

 with fine downy hairs. The antennas appear to be more slender 

 and the spines upon the tibise and tarsi more distinct. 



Soldier. — Head dark castaneous, the rest ochreous-yellow with 

 the centre of prothorax and the abdominal plates pale ferruginous. 

 Length 2 J lines. Head hemispherical, lightly covered with a few 

 hairs, tapering in front to the snout which is nearly as long as 

 the rounded portion of the head; palpi long and slender, but not 

 reaching to the tip of the snout; antennaj composed of 14 joints, 

 long and slender, the apex of each much lighter than the basal 



