438 CLAUDE FULLER. 



Hodotermes mossambicus {Hageii). PI. XXXIV, figs. 4, 

 4a ■ PL XXXV, fig. 4. 



Termes mossambicus Hagen. Monatl. Bericht. d. K. Akad. der 

 Wiss, Berlin, p. 480, 1853. 



Soldier. 



Measurements. — Total length, 14 to 15"5 mm.; head 

 with mandibles, 5'7 to 6"5 mm. ; head-width, 4 to 4*5 mm. ; 

 head-length, 4 to 4*5 mm. 



Head. — Vertex reddish-yellow; clypeus reddish, darker 

 in the middle; frons yellow, mottled as with transvaalensis, 

 but not so conspicuously. Surface polished; vertex not 

 quite smooth; with few and inconspicuous scattered hairs; 

 frons faintly wrinkled ; clypeus not strongly chitinised. 

 Dorsal outline broadl}^ or roundly oval, a little longer than 

 wide ; Y-suture distinct ; vertex flatly arched ; sides convex 

 and curvate ; trochantin of mandible not so prominent as in 

 transvaalensis. 



Frons deflected and once dej^ressed ; depression cephalic ; 

 fairly deep, merging into clypeus, bordered behind by a low 

 transverse brow, the median region of which projects a little 

 forward. 



Eyes black, sub-reniform, facing obliquely upwards. 



Ocelli in the form of two minute, oval, white spots. 



Clypeus as with transvaalensis. 



Labrum with flatly brace-shaped cephalic iDargin ; distal 

 corners somewhat lobed, then tapering somewhat acutely; 

 like that of transvaalensis but distal margin more flattened, 

 very different from that of havilandi. 



Mandibles at base dark red, the rest black ; dentation and 

 form as with transvaalensis, but with apical points much 

 incurved, and more slender and both about equally coarse ; 

 not so highly coloured as in havilandi and coarser; with 

 margin below basal process of left irregular and not incurvate; 

 with margin below second tooth of right with two short 

 incisions and only a suppressed scallop between them ; cephalic 

 edge of second tooth of right distinct W bi-curvate. 



