﻿ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. 



BAND 4. N:o 10. 



Contributions to the knowledge of Thaiima- 

 toxena Bredd. & Börn. 



By 



IVAR TRÄGÅRDH. 



Uppsala. 



With 7 Textfigures. 

 Comniunicated December 12:th 1908 by Chr. Aurivillius and E. Lönnberg. 



In the year 1904 Breddin & Bornera described a most 

 singular and aberrant termitophilous insect viz. Thaumatoxena 

 Wasmanni. It had been discovered by Haviland at Est- 

 court in Natal, in the nest of Termes natalensis Hav. As 

 the paper containing the description was not yet accessible 

 to me, when I started on my voyage to Natal and Zululand 

 in October the same year I did not not know of the dis- 

 covery. Consequentiy I could not make any special researches 

 for the insect, which seems to be by no means common in 

 the nests of Termes natalensis. Therefore it was quite by 

 accident that I brought home a single ^T specimen of that 

 species amongst my collection of termitophilous insects. 



Breddin & Börner considered Thaumatoxena to be an 

 Hemipteron and Börner founded on it a new suborder, 

 Conorrhyncfia. 



Silvestri^ on the other hand, who has recently described 

 another species of the same genus, from the nests of T. hel- 



^ Ueber Thaumatoxe-na wasmanni, den Vertreter einer neuen Unter- 

 ordnung der Rhynchoten, in Sitz. Berichte Gesellsch. Naturf. Freiinde- 

 Berlin 1904, p. 84—93, Figs 1—4. 



' Contribuzione alla Conoseenza dei Termitidi e Termitofili dell' Eri- 

 trea. in Redia. Vol. III fasc. 2°, 1905, p. 350—359. Textfigs. 10—22. 



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