44S CLAUDE FULLER. 



Hoclotermes viator {LatrieUe). PI. XXXIY, figs. 8, 8a; 

 PL XXXY, fig. 8. 



Termes viator LatrieUe. Ji\&i. Nat. des Crast. et des Ins., xiii. p. 

 51, 1805. 



Soldier. 



Measurements. — Total length 7 to 13 mm.; head with 

 mandibles 3 to 6 mm. ; head-width 2"3 to 3 mm. 



Head. — The whole dark red-brown, cephalic half very 

 dark in the larger and paler in the smaller soldiers. Surface 

 polished. Dorsal outline U-shaped, as broad as long, widest 

 at cephalic edge; Y-suture faint or distinct; vertex flatly- 

 arched ; sides straight, parallel, tapering in lateral to eyes, 

 often asymmetrical, often flatly cnrvate or incurvate ; trochan- 

 tin of mandible strong and distinct. 



Frons deflected and twice depressed ; depressions separated 

 by a wide, rounded transverse ridge running between the 

 ocelli ; caudal depression shallowing into vertex. 



Eyes black, facing forward and outward. 



Ocelli white and defined in small soldiers ; in large masked 

 by chitin ; represented by pale aureolate spots which under a 

 low magnification appear as dark raised points. 



Clypeus with anterior margin sti-aight and usually bordered 

 with a pale yellow, somewhat inflated, brace-shaped sti-ap (the 

 epistome). 



Labrum bright but opaque, its orange yellow colour in 

 strong contrast to surroundings; large, spatulate and arched; 

 distal edge convex with a broad convex median prolongation 

 quite different from that in the foregoing species of 

 H o d o t e r m e s. 



Mandibles black, except for a small reddish patch at inner 

 bases ; this is covered by the lateral lobes of the labrum, 

 both comparatively straight ; dentation as with other species, 

 but teeth sharp and more on a median alignment, so that the 

 lower margin forms a cutting edge ; lower margin of each 

 tooth on left distinctly lobed ; first and second tooth on both 

 attenuated and sharply pointed ; basal process of left having 



