496 OHAUDE FULF-EK. 



Scoop-shaped. — In the form of a shovel with a shoi't, broad handle- 

 and with upturned sides to its blade. 



Sellate.— Saddle-shaped, used in the restricted sense of the peculiar 

 broad and convex shape of the pronotum of termites. 



Serratulate. — With little teeth or serrations. 



Side-plates. — Thin lateral extensions of the pro-, meso-, and meta- 

 notuni. 



Sinuate. — Applied to lines and margins with an in-and-out curve. 



Sub-reniform. — Almost reniform or irregularly oval. 



Tricurvate. — A line or margin with two out and one in curve or 

 two in and one out curve. 



Trochantin of mandible. — A narrow, and often salient, sclerite 

 between mandible and gena. 



Turbinate. — -Top-shaped, or napiform (Botanical). 



U-shaped. — Having the outline of the letter U, applied to the heads 

 of many termites, although the arms are always a little in-bent at their 

 apices. 



Ventral genge. — The two cheeks lateral to the gula composed of 

 the genfeand post-gense, but with the line of demarcation qviite obsolete. 



Wavy. — Sinuate, with several in-and-out curves. 



Whorl. — A ring of long hair, or hair-like bristles, arranged around 

 a centre like the spokes around the hub of a wheel. 



Y-sviture. — The Y-shaped suture or the eijicranial sutu.re which 

 divides the vertex into two sclerites, the arms separating the vertex 

 from the frons. 



VII. REFERENCES. 



(la) Haviland. G. D. — " Obsei-vations on Termites," " Journal of the 

 Linnean Society,' vol. xxvi, 1898. 



(lb) Warren, Ernest. — " Notes on the Life-IIistories of Natal Ter- 

 mites based on the observations of the late Gr. D. Haviland," ' Annals of 

 the Natal Museum," vol. ii, Pt. 1, 1909. 



(2) Sjostedt, Y. — ' Monograph of African Termites * and Supplement, 

 1901. 



(3) Fuller, C— " White Ants in Natal," ' Agricultural Journal of the 

 Union of South Africa,' 1912. 



(4) Desneux, J. — " Family Termitida?," ' Genera Insectorum,' 1904. 



(5) Comstock and Kellog. — ' Elements of Insect Anatomy,' New York, 

 1902. 



(6) Comstock and Chujiro Kochi. — " The Skeleton of the Head of 

 Insects," ' The American Naturalist,' vol. xxxvi, No. 421, 1902. 



(7) Smith, J. B.— ' Glossary of Entomology,' New York, 1906. 



