BY WALTER W. FROGGATT. 755 



reddish spot on either side of the clypeus. Length 3 lines. 

 Head very broad and large, convex on the summit, flattened 

 slightly on the forehead, sloping on the sides to the base of the 

 jaws; cl3'peus very prominent, convex, broad and rounded behind, 

 slightly lobed in the centre; labrum large, rounded; antennas 

 13-jointed, springing from the antennal cleft behind the jaws; 

 terminal segments more slender than those of the soldiers. 

 Thorax very slender. Abdomen large, elongate-oval. 



Hab. — Shoalhaven, Blue Mountains, Sydney, Newcastle (W. 

 W. Froggatt); Southern Queensland, and Northern Rivers, N.S.W. 

 (W. W. Froggatt); Mt. Lofty, S. Australia (Dr. StirHng); Gun- 

 bower, Victoria (INIr. George Perrin); Mackay, Queensland (Mr. 

 Gilbert Turner); Kalgoorlie, W.A. (Mr. G. W. Froggatt). 



This is the commonest species of the genus, with a very wide 

 range over the greater part of Australia; wherever dead wood is 

 found it is more or less in evidence, sharing with Tennes lacteus 

 the credit of doing more damage to woodwork than all the other 

 species ; but while the latter chiefly attack covered wood in 

 houses, the former confine themselves more to fences and out- 

 houses, and often eat out the roots and stems of cultivated plants 

 that are dead or dying. They build the typical "negro head" 

 arboreal nests on the trunks of trees, or small doa,ie-shaped 

 termitaria from six inches to two feet in height over stumps or 

 logs. It is to this termite that the general description of the 

 Eutermes nest and habits given in Part i. of this paper (pp. 433-5) 

 has reference. In identifying this species as Eutermes fiimipennis, 

 Walker, I find in spite of his very brief description, which 

 might apply to several, that it agrees in size and colouration; and 

 though I have been unable to see the type in the British Museum, 

 I think I can hardly be wrong in applying to my specimens 

 Walker's specific name. 



Eutermes fumigatus, Brauer. 



(Plate XXXV., figs. 5, 5a.) 



General colour dai-k brown, head darkest, smooth, shining ; 



antennae light-coloured at the apex of each joint; clypeus ochreous; 



thorax, legs, and under surface yellowish-brown; wings fuscous, 



