446 CLAUDE FULLER. 



Hodotermes braini -sp. n. PI. XXXIV, figs. 7, 7a; 

 PL XXXV, fig. 7. 



Soldier. 



Measure m e n t s . — Total lengtli 1 2 mm. ; head with man- 

 dibles 5 mm. ; head-width 3 mm. 



Head. — Vertex marked by a broad median, parallel-sided 

 stripe of pale brown which seems to extend from the 

 clypeus to the occiput, and is about half the breadth of 

 the head ; lateral to this the field is dark brown to the sides. 

 Clypeus reddish-yellow. Frons yellow with a dark, ill-defined 

 median area. Surface dulled ; frons and clypeus faintly 

 wi-inkled. Dorsal outline distinctly oblong, U-shaped and 

 flatly rounded behind ; Y-suture distinct ; vertex flatly arched 

 and not depressed; sides parallel and straight, somewhat 

 constricted, tapering from laterad of ej'es to trochantin of 

 mandible ; trochantin well defined, concolorous with adjacent 

 parts. 



Frons deflected slightly and but faintly impressed. 

 Eyes black, sub-reniform. 



Ocelli small, but distinct, oval, white, surrounded by a 

 narrow ring of dark red-brown and a difi^use band of pale 

 yellow. 



Clypeus oblong ; with cephalic corners of epistome rounded 

 and much deflected^ giving it a three-sided appearance ; with 

 a median, cephalic, flat, pyramidal elevation; frontal folds 

 indistinct. 



Labrum mu^ch like that of transvaalensis, but more elon- 

 gate and front margin more acute. 



Mandibles black, bases suft'used with dark red ; dentation 

 as with transvaalensis ; comparatively slender and 

 straight ; apical points long and not couspicuously incurved, 

 that of left nearly straight ; on the dorsal surface, at the 

 base of each, a small punctate area ; process of left acute and 

 deflected; margin below second tooth of right, twice incised 

 and bicrenulate between the incisions. 



