OBSERVATIONS ON SOME SOUTH AFEIOAN TERMITES. 479. 



Hab. — Natal; Pietermaritzburg. Transvaal; Pretoria, 

 Alberton, Krugersdorp, Johannesburg, Pietersburg^ Pyramids. 

 Orange Free State ; Dealesville. 



Termes latericius Raviland. PI. XXXIV, fig. 15. 



Termes latericius Hav.. Jouru. Linn. Soc. Lond., xxvi, p. 386, 

 1898. 



Soldier. 



Measurements. — Total length 5 to 6 mm.; head with 

 mandibles 2 5 to 2*6 mm.; head-width 1*4 mm.; mandibles 

 1 mm. 



Head. — Pale reddish-yellow or dark red-brown. Ovate 

 tapering markedly to mandibles, somewhat roundly arched. 

 Fontanelle absent. Frontal area scarcely or not impressed ; 

 with an obscured Y-shaped mark indicating the Y- suture. 

 Eye-spots absent. 



Clypeus continuous with frons ; distal margin (epistome) pale 

 and straight or slightly curvate ; sides straight and parallel or 

 slightly diverging. 



Labrum elongate-linguiform ; with three groups of superior 

 bristles, apical of 8, sub-marginals of 5 to 6. 



Mandibles with distal two-thirds black, bases reddish; 

 apical points sharp and incurved ; cutting margins remark- 

 ably tine, entire and blade-like. Left a little broader than 

 right, with a sharp tooth below an acute incision and placed 

 two-thirds towards the apex ; margin below tooth produced 

 as a faintly sinuate, entire blade ; at the base a strong, rounded, 

 conical protuberance ; directed forwards. Right with an 

 almost obsolete tooth, protuberance salient and opposite to 

 that on the left and a minute, acute, conical salient, tooth, 

 placed a little distal to the base. 



AntenntB, with 16 or 17 joints, usually with 16; bases 

 pallid, distal two-thirds smoky; joints globose or sub-obconic, 

 except I and II which are cylindrical. In the XVI- jointed 

 form III is usually propoi'tionately large and IV is the 

 smallest joint ; in the XVII-jointed form III is the smallest and 



