454 NEW AND RARK AUSTRALIAN TERMITES, WITH NOTES ON THEIR BIOLOGY, 



A £ew alate male and female images were captuieil at a lamp iu a Towns- 

 ville residence on each of the following nights :— 3/3/19, 8/12/19, 7/1/20, 

 15/2/20, 5/3/20, 24/1/21, 26/1/21, 8/2/21, 28/2/21, 2/3/21, 8/3/21, 10/3/21, 

 7/4/21. On 24th January and 8th March many alate male and females were 

 taken under the clayey casing enveloping fence posts in Townsville and on 21st 

 February still greater numbers were found under somewhat similar circumstances 

 at Rollingstone. In each case the wood had been seriously damaged. The 

 winged foi-ms, like the soldiers and workers, are very active and when disturbed 

 retreat ra])idly to cracks and crevices, preferring to hide rather than to take 

 wing. 



N*med in honour of Dr. Anton Breinl, formerly Direetor of the Australian 

 Institute of Tropical Medicine. 



Loc— N. Queensland: Rollingstone, Townsville (G. F. Hill I; ? N.W. Aus- 

 tralia: Kimberley (Dr. E. Mjoberg). 



Subfamily TERMITINAE. 



Genus E u T E R M E s Fr. Mull. 



Not known. 



EUTEHMES WESTRALIENSIS, U. sp. 



Imago. 



(Figs. 51-56.) 



Soldier. (Figs. 51-53.) 



Colour: Head very dark, almost black; rostrum rather darker than posterior 

 portion; antennae, thorax, femora, and tergites of abdomen mumm}' brown; 

 under surface, tibiae, tarsi, and palpi dresden brown. 



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Eutermcs 7vestraliensis, n.sp. 

 Figs. 51-.i3. Soldier. 51. Head in profile; 52. Head from above; 



53. Antennae, proximal segments. 

 Figs. 54-56. Worker. 54. Head; 55. Mandibles; 56. .-Xntennae, proximal 



segments. 



Head (Figs. 51 and 52) very long and slender, rounded behind, sloping on 

 the sides to the long, stout rostrum; rostrum as long as remainder of head, 

 slightly convex above in the profile; front of head depressed; a few short setae 



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