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Legs pale yellow. 



Abdomen. — Concolorous with thorax; styli and cerci 

 prominent. 



Minor Soldier. 



Measurements. — Total length 4 to 5 mm.; head and 

 mandibles 1"5 mm.; head-width 1 mm. 



Resembling major soldier, but having a more elongate sub- 

 pyriform head and proportionately longer jaws and labrnm. 

 The labrura tapers fi-om its base to apex, and the sides are 

 bicurvate, curvate at the base and incurvate towards the apex, 

 so forming with the cephalic margin small lobed corners. 



Antennae shorty 15 or 16 joints. 



Worker. 



Measurements. — Total length 4'5 mm.; head-width 1*2 

 to 1*5 mm. 



Head. — Pallid, yellow; smooth; Y-suture distinct with 

 triangular splash of white in fork ; two small pennant strips 

 extending caudad from arms of suture at half their length ; 

 at lateral extremities, behind antennal fosste, large blotches 

 of white ; cephalic part of frons with two square patches 

 of yellow just lateral to median line, lateral to these and 

 medial to frontal cai-inas two irregular yellow patches ;. 

 frontal carinse with fine brown lines which merge into 

 two concolorous spots at superior attachments of mandibles ; 

 clypeus, epistome and labrum concolorous with head ;. 

 mandibles yellowish with white spots ; teeth of mandibles 

 dark brown. 



Antennae pallid, moniliform, XVI or XVII-jointed. 



Hab. — Natal; Durban. 



This is the insect which Haviland noted in the Botanic 

 Gardens, Durban, and hesitated to describe in the absence of 

 imaffos. 



