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AUSTRALIAN TEB2IITID^. 



Part III. 



By Walter W. Frorgatt, F.L.S. 



(Plates xxxiv.-xxxv.) 



Genus Termes, Linne. 



Head large, rounded, elliptical or quadrangular; eyes mode- 

 rately large, projecting, and finely faceted; ocelli present, oblique 

 or oval. Clypeus moderately large; labrum broad and rounded; 

 antennae 13-20-jointed, longer than the head. Prothorax heart- 

 shaped, flattened, smaller than the head; tibise spined; plantula 

 wanting. Wings large, rounded at the tips, costal and subcostal 

 nervures running parallel to each other but not connected by cross 

 nervures from base to apex, median and submedian nervures 

 distinct, oblique, nervures variable. Scapular shield small, cross 

 suture transverse. Cerci cone-shaped. 



Soldiers v/ith large heads, jaws projecting well in front, toothed 

 or sabre-shaped, but always regular and matching each other. 



Many build large nests, but others live under logs, stones, etc. 



Termes lacteus, Froggatt. 



(Plate xxxiv., figs. 2, 2a.) 



Termes lactis, Froggatt, Agric. Gazette, N.S.W., May, 1897, 



with Plate, p. 297. 



Upper surface dark castaneous ; antenntv and mouth parts 

 light brown; under surface dark brown; wings fuscous; nervures 

 brown ; the whole insect covered with short scattered hairs 

 extending over the wings. Length to tip of the wings 8, body 

 3,7 lines. 



