6 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 12. NIO 15. 



2. Stolotermes queenslaiidicus n. sp. 



Imago (Plate 1, Fig. 2, Text Fig. 1, 2.) General colour dark 

 reddish-brown, under-surfaee much lighter; jaws (except the 

 tips) posterior parts of the head, a more or less T-shaped 

 marking on the prothorax (from the anterior margin through 

 the centre in the form of a narrovv yellow line), lateral markings 

 of meso- and meta thorax, and a median line through the 



Text Fig, 1. a Antenna of soldier oi Stolotermes queenslandicus Mjöb. n. sp. 

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centre of the abdomen, yellowish-white. Wings smoky- 

 fuscous, when folded together very nearly black. 



Head much flattened, rounded slightly convex on the 

 summit; eyes large and prominent, coarsely faceted, black 

 sutures distinctly visible in shape of lighter narrow lines, 

 springing from the inner margin of the eyes, meeting further 

 back on the hind head and continuing to the posterior mar- 

 gin. Joints of palpi and antennse fuscous, lighter at the base 

 and top. Clypeus distinctly marked with a basal and an 

 apical part; labrum broad, large, rounded and hairy at the 

 tip. Jaws broad and short, with two sharp well-marked 

 apical teeth and a smaller blunt one further down, the basal 



