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AnteniitB 17 joints; dark brown ringed with white. Ill 

 and V smaller than IV. 



Hab. — Natal; Bellair, Mt. Edgecombe, Pietermaritzburg, 

 New Hanover, Weenen, Estcourt, Winterton. Transvaal ; 

 Pretoria, Barberton, Tzaneen. Cape ; Kimberley. 



The imago is not being here described, but as a point of 

 interest it may be mentioned that in examining the kings it 

 was found that in nearly every case the antenna? had been 

 reduced to XIII joints and never more than XIV were present. 



Termes bad ins HavUand. PI. XXXIV, fig. 14; 

 PI. XXXIII, figs. 1, 2. 



? Termes monodon GerstilcJcer, Jabrb. Hamb. Wiss. Aust., ix, p. 



185, 1891. 

 Termes badius Hav.. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond.. xxvi. p. 385, 1898. 



Soldier Series. 



M e a s nr e m e n t s . — Total len gth 7 to 1 2 mm . ; head with 

 mandibles 3'5 to 4*5 mm. Soldiers of one caste only but in 

 three or four grades. 



He;id. — Pale, translucent, honey- or reddish-yellow, darker 

 towards mandibles ; (spirit material often yellow-brown, or 

 reddish-brown or intense black-brown) ; without stripes 

 showing through chitin (or with 4 or 5 short dai"k lines ex- 

 tending over occipital region, 1 median, 4 sub- median, median 

 frequently absent); smooth; shining; somcAvhat thick; broad- 

 ovate ; sides curvate, tapering to mandibles, also tapering a 

 little towards and merging into caudal margin; broadest at 

 about three-quarters the full length of the epicranium. 



Fontanelle indicated by a minute dot, or apparently absent; 

 actually always present and always perforate. 



Frontal area faintly impressed, sloping a little and then 

 precipitous to cephalic margin of clypeus ; divided into two 

 regions which are separated by a low more or less arched 

 transverse ridge; appearance otherwise variable and elusive, 



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