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pronotum ; sides straight, diverging outwards ; caudal margin 

 faintly bilobed. 



Metanotura nearly as long as mesonotuni and wider; sides 

 similar ; caudal margin flatly curved. 



Legs uniformly concolorous with abdomen. 



Abdomen, — Bright red-gold; somewhat wide towards 

 extremity ; not banded. 



Hab. — Cape Colony; Stellenbosch,Elsenberg, Victoria East. 



This is a well-known and destructive insect in the older 

 settled regions of the Cape, and is that to which the term 

 " hout-kapper " was first applied. It is strikingly different 

 from any of the other species mentioned in this paper, but 

 much like aurivellii, another distinct species, a description 

 of which is deferred. 



Calotermes. 



Calotermes durbanesis Haviland. PI. XXXIV, fig. 9. 



Calotermes durbanensis Haviland, Journ. Lmn. Soc. Lond., 

 xxvi, p. 377, 1898. 



Soldier. 



Measurements. — Total length 7 to 10 mm. ; head Avith 

 mandibles 3"5 to 3'7 mm. ; head-width 1"5 to 1'7 mm. 



Head . — Vertex dark brown, clypeus black, labrum reddish. 

 Surface polished, cylindrical. Viewed dorsally, elongate, 

 sub-oblong ; sides straight and parallel ; vertex with a distinct 

 shallow median depression which extends backward from the 

 frons over half the length of the head; Y-suture absent; 

 occipital region not indented ; trochantin of mandible pro- 

 jecting conspicuously. 



Frons precipitous, depressed, wrinkled ; cephalic margin 

 straight ; parted from the clypeus by a transverse ridge wliich 

 generally presents paired median points. 



Eyes almost obsolete, pale. Ocelli absent. 



Clypeus pale, sub-oblong, with a straight cephalic margin 

 and oblique sides. 



Labrum short, almost circular. 



