732 AUSTRALIAN TERMITID^, 



base, contracted at the extremity to a truncated tip. Prothorax 

 very small. Abdomen hairy, elongate-oval; cerci small. 



/^a6.-Torrens Creek, N.Q. (Mr. J. H. Chisholm). 



A small tube containing seven specimens, sent by this gentle- 

 man, but without information as to habits. 



Termes krisiformis, n.sp. 

 (Plate XXXIV., figs. 6, 6rt.) 



Winged form unknown. 



Soldier. — Head pale yellow; jaws ferruginous; prothorax pale 

 yellow, rest dull white. Length 3 lines. Head very long, slender, 

 cylindrical, slightly rounded behind, sides straight to the base of 

 the antennae, where they turn sharply up to the base of the jaws; 

 suture crossing head and meeting a transverse one, and forming 

 an angular patch in the centre; forehead projecting in front, 

 I'ugose and hiding the clypeus ; antennae 14-jointed, springing 

 from clefts in the front of the head in a line with the base of the 

 jaws; 1st very large, rounded at the tip; 2nd-3rd of about equal 

 length; 4th smallest, oval; 5th-13th oval, more pyriform and 

 increasing in size to the tips; llth longest, oval; labrum long, 

 broad at the base, slightly contracted to the apex, which is 

 truncate, with a sharp point on either side; jaws narrow at the 

 base, very slender, and rising upward, instead of produced 

 straight in front of the head, and then bending down again, of 

 an irregular thickness, curving round at the extremities into a 

 hollow auger-like tip coming to a point. Prothorax very narrow, 

 truncate in front, with rather angular sides running round to 

 apex; legs rather long; thighs thick, tibife short, with two stout 

 apical spines, claws large. Abdomen elongate-oval, with slender 

 cerci. 



Worker. — Head brownish-yellow, rest dull white. Length 2h 

 lines. Head orbicular, rounded to the base of the antennse; the 

 latter 14-jointed; clypeus large, rounded on both sides and lobed 

 in the centre; labrum narrow, rounded at the tip; jaws large and 

 stout, with two broad pointed teeth near the tip. Abdomen 

 broad, tapering towards the tip; cerci slender and hairy. 



Hab. — Sutherland, near Sydney (W. W. Froggatt). 



