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Meso- and metanotum much narrower than, and about half 

 the length of, the pronotum. 



Legs pale and dark brown ; short and stout ; more or less 

 highly chitinised ; femur broad. 



Abdomen. — Sordid yellow-brown; concolorous with 

 thorax. 



Hab. — Natal; Durban, Bellair, Winklespruit. 



The species here discussed agrees with the Haviland 

 material, and some specimens were obtained from the same 

 source. If durbanensis is synonymous with C. mada- 

 gascarensis Wasm., as stated (2 and 4), the description 

 of the mandibles of the latter is as incomplete as was Havi- 

 land's description of those of durbanensis. 



Rhinoteumes. 



Rhinotermes putorius {Sjiistedt). PI. XXXIV, fig. 10.. 

 Termes putorius Sjustedt. Ent. Tidskr., xvii, p. 298, 1896. 



Major Soldier. 



Measurements. — Total length 7-5 to &6 mm. ; head wdth 

 mandibles 2'5 mm. ; head-width 2 mm. 



Head. — Reddish or golden red; bases of frontal folds 

 chocolate brown. Dorsal outline short-ovate, somewhat 

 cordate ; sides tapering and constricted lateral to antennal 

 fossa3; Y-suture absent; frontal folds clearly expressed in 

 the form of a V with carved sides ; vertex faintly wrinkled ; 

 area of front indicated by several strong wi-inkles which run 

 parallel with suture and are V-shaped. 



Eyes minute and pale. Ocelli and fontanelle obsolete. 



Clypeus with cephalic margin straight with a thin plate 

 (epistome) ; sides diverging to margin of head ; limited 

 caudally by the two frontal margins of the frons, which 

 converge to a large white foramen ; the foramen seems to be- 

 placed in the clypeo-frontal suture and lies in the foi'k of the 

 frontal folds, well in the middle of the anterior region of the- 



