•OBSERVATIONS ON SOME SOUTH AFRICAN TERMITES. -iSl 



A b d o m e n. — Transparent. 



Minor Woeker. 

 Measurements. — Total length 4to4'7omni. ; liead-witlth 

 1'2 mm. 



Similar to 'major worker, antenna XYII- or XVIII-jointed. 



Hab. — Transvaal; Pretoria, Barberton. Natal; Pieter- 

 maritzburg, Durban, Scottburgh, Mt. Edgecombe. 



Termes vulgaris Havilmul. PI. XXXIV, fig. 16. 



Termes vulgaris Hav., Journ. Linn. Soc. Loud., vol. xxvi, p. 387, 

 1898. 



SOLDIEK. 



Measurements. — Totctl length 6 to 7 nnn. ; head with 

 nirindibles 2'5 to 8 mm.; head-width, I'd mm. 



Head. — Reddish-yellow; Y-suture faintly delineated; 

 vertex with paired but very faint sub-median stripes. Dorsal 

 outline somewhat elongate, broadly oval; roundly yrched ; 

 frontal area sloping and somewhat precipitous at clypeus; 

 with faint transverse wrinkles. Fontanelle and eye-spots 

 absent. 



Clypeus short, insignificant ; cephalic margin pale. 



Labrum linguiform, reaching to half the length of the 

 mandibles (more obtuse than that of latericius). 



Mandibles yellow-brown to dark chestnut-brown or black, 

 paler at the bases; apical points sharp, incurved. Left 

 mandible a little broader than the right, with a salient tooth 

 two-thirds towards the apex; cutting margin above and below 

 tooth with a moniliform edge, the beads being more prominent 

 below the tooth ; at the base a strong, blunt, triangular and 

 salient protuberance. Right mandible with a distinct tooth, 

 moie intermediate than that on the left and less pronotmced ; 

 the cutting margin above and below the tooth is minutely 

 irregular; below the tooth towards the base there is a 

 distinct curved excision, the proximal end of the excision 



