98 NORTHERN TERRITORY TE RMTTID.F., \., 



This species appears to be a rare one, onl}^ one community 

 having come under the writer's notice up to the present time. 

 This colony consisted of a gravid neoteinic queen, king, two com- 

 plementary queens, about 15 soldiers, about 100 workers, numer- 

 ous nymphse and eggs. The nest was a rounded mass, about 

 3 inches in diameter, composed of triturated wood and eartli, 

 situated just below the surface of the ground at the base of a 

 fencepost-strutt. The royal pair were found in a small gallery, 

 not differentiated from other galleries, with a few soldiers and 

 workers. The eggs were stored in similar galleries close by. 

 One of the complementary queens occupied a small passage about 

 one inch distant, and by her were numerous eggs, and a few 

 soldiers and workers. The species is of little economic import- 

 ance. 



I have pleasure in naming the species after Mr. Frank H. 

 Taylor, Entomologist to the Australian Institute of Tropical 

 Medicine, Queensland. 



Hab. — Koolpinyah, near Darwin, Northern Territory (G. F. 

 Hill, 21/11/13). Types(No.89) in Entomologist's Office, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, N.T. 



COPRITERMES FrOGGATTI, Sp.nOV. 



Winged form not known. 



Queeii. — Head and marking on scapular shield ferruginous; 

 clypeus, antennae, thorax, legs, and chitinous plates of abdomen 

 paler; rest of body whitish. Length, 10 mm. Head hairy like 

 prothorax, rounded behind, flattened on summit, a keyhole-like 

 mark in the centre, in line with the centre of the eyes. Eyes 

 large, projecting well beyond the sides of the head; ocelli large, 

 renif orm . Antennae hairy, base and apex of each segment white, 

 13-jointed, springing from a circular cleft in front of the eyes; 

 1st joint long and fairly stout; 2nd much shorter; 3rd smallest, 

 circular; 4th and 5th moniliform; 6th-12th increasing in length, 

 slightly turbinate; 13th same length as 12th. Clypeus large, 

 arcuate behind, divided in the middle line by an indistinct 

 suture, apex depressed, divided from the basal three-fourths by 

 a deep cross-suture, sides sloping to the truncate front margin. 



