BY WALTER W. FROGGATT. 735 



rounded lobes in front; labrum large, bi'oad at the base, rounded 

 at the tip; jaws as long as the head, square at the base, curving 

 out into two large sickle-like blades crossing each other in the 

 centre when at rest, armed with a slender pointed tooth on eitlier 

 side, standing sharply out in a line with the tip of the labrum; 

 palpi very long and slender, nearly as long as the jaws. Pro- 

 thorax not as broad as the head, flattened on the dorsal surface, 

 •with an irregular median suture and a ti'ansverse impression in 

 the centi'e; the front margin rounded, slightly arcuate in the 

 centre; rounded on the sides to about the middle, where they 

 swell out into a broad angular point round to the apical; legs 

 very long and slender, the tilnte covered with short spiny hairs as 

 well as three stout spines at the tips, the 4th tarsal joint long and 

 slender. Abdomen thickly coAered with long hairs, constricted 

 at the base, swelling out, and forming a broad rounded tip; cerci 

 short and stout. 



Worker. — Head ferruginous to dark brown, with pale suture 

 crossing the centre of the head; prothorax ferruginous; rest light 

 brown. Length 3^ lines. Head large, rounded behind, a little 

 longer than Ijroad, forehead deeply arcuate on the sides, depressed 

 in the centre behind the clypeus; clypeus slightly lobed in the 

 centre, sloping on the sides to a rounded tip; labrum broad, 

 rounded at the tip; jaws broad and stout, with two sharp angular 

 teeth at the tip, and two broad flattened teeth towards the base; 

 antennee springing from a cleft, of the same form as in the soldier. 

 Abdomen large, narrow at the base, swelling out near the centre, 

 and sloping down to the extremity; cerci small. 



//«&.— Kalgoorlie, W.A. (Mr. G. W. Froggatt). 



The very dark colour, immense curved jaws, the long slender 

 legs and antennae make the soldier of this species very distinctive. 



These very curious termites were found under a dead log upon 

 the ground by my father, who says, " I found a numerous colony 

 of workers and soldiers under a log unlike any other species about 

 here. The soldiers were very savage, when touched exuding a 

 white milky substance and biting so viciously that if once they 



