444 CLAUDE FULLER. 



Hodotermes wari'eni sp. n. PI. XXXIA^, figs- ^j ^^^ > 

 PI. XXXV, fig. 6. 



Soldier. 



Measurements. — Total length 8 to 14 mm.; head with 

 mandibles 3'5 to 6*5 mm. ; head-width 2 to 3*7 mm. 



Head. — Resembling dully polished tortoise-shell; some- 

 times a rich reddish-brown with colour bands ill-defined. 

 Vertex with a bright orange-yellow ground and three deep 

 red-brown furcate-lanceolate sti-ipes; median stripe fusiform, 

 extending along stem of Y-suture ; sub-median stripes extend- 

 ing from caudad of eyes over occipital region, then forming a 

 median line on the ventral slopes of the gen^ ; clypeus 

 reddish in the middle, bright yellow at sides ; small lateral 

 prolongation behind mandibles black. Surface polished; the 

 whole finely wrinkled ; cephalic depression of frontal area 

 distinctly wrinkled ; without conspicuous hairs. Dorsal out- 

 line broadly U-shaped; longer than wide; sides parallel, 

 nearly straight or flatly curvate ; Y-suture distinct; vertex 

 broadly arched ; trochantin of mandible not very con- 

 spicuous. 



Frons not conspicuously impressed. 



Eyes black, sub-reniform. 



Ocelli small, indistinct, and not bordered b}^ a darker 



colour. 



Clypeus with the cephalic edge (epistome) rounded and 



deflected anterior to a transverse ridge; frontal folds distinct, 



oblique, extending well backwards. 



Labrum pale yellow, very broadly cordate, as in 

 transvaalensis, but a little more roundly acute and 

 proportionately longer. 



Mandibles in form and dentation as with transvaalensis; 

 apical points acute and narrow, but not as slender as in 

 havilandi; first tooth of left elongate, acute, and directed 

 somewhat towards apical point ; basal process acute and very 

 prominent ; second tooth of right comparatively large, margin 

 below wavy and not incised. 



