BY G. F. HILL. 89 



Only one small colony has come under the writer's notice. 

 This was situated under a piece of wood lying upon the ground. 

 The termites are believed to feed upon decaying grass-leaves. 



^a6. -Fannie Bay, near Darwin, Northern Territory (G. F. 

 Hill, 30/12/13). Types (No.ll9) in Entomologist's Office, De- 

 partment of Agriculture, N.T. 



Termes rubriceps Froggatt. 



Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1897, xxii., p.730. 



Winged form [description incomplete].— General colour brown 

 above, ochreous below. Head very dark brown. Ocelli pale 

 yellow; base of clypeus light brown; antennse lighter, and banded 

 with whitish; thorax and apex of each dorsal plate of abdomen 

 brown; rest of insect dark ochreous. Head large, rounded, 

 slightly longer than wide. Forehead concave, with a deep circular 

 cleft in the centre, a distinct suture from the cleft to the pos- 

 terior margin of the head, arcuate behind the clypeus, summit 

 without hairs. Eyes large, finely faceted, projecting. Ocelli 

 large, circular, in line with the front margin of the eyes, from 

 which they are widely separated. Between the ocelli and clypeus, 

 a large light brown spot. Antennse 18-jointed, springing from a 

 circular cleft in front of, and close to, the eye; 1st joint moder- 

 ately long, cylindrical, apex whitish and fringed with hairs; 3rd 

 and 4th very small, coalesced; 5th to 7th moniliform; 8th to 1 7th 

 stalked, straight on the sides; 1 8th elongate; 5th to 18th covered 

 with fine short hairs, and a few long ones. Clypeus large, convex, 

 divided by a suture, apex lobed. Labrum large, convex, widest 

 across the middle, sloping to the blunt apex. Prothorax saddle- 

 shaped, not as wide as head, wider than long, truncate in front, 

 rounded on the sides and hind margin, front margin bent up in 

 the middle and crossed by a suture; behind the suture, the 

 summit is concave. Scapular shield showing the base of five 

 nervures; cross-suture transverse. " Abdomen nearly cylindrical, 

 bluntly rounded at the end. Cerci very small. Abdomen and 

 thorax covered with short hairs. Legs long, stout, hairy; tibial 

 spines strong; claws long and slender. [Wings damaged]. 



The foregoing description refers to a single damaged specimen 

 taken in an underground passage (11/1/14) in which were found 



