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26. Eutermes kimberleyensis n. sp. 



Soldier (Plate 2, Fig. 5, Text Fig. 21b). Of about the 

 same size as the soldier of E. fumipennis Walk.; head light 

 reddish brown, broad and rounded behind, tapering markedly 

 at the sides towards the short and stout slightly darker 

 snout, slightly impressed in front (see profile Pl. 2, Fig. 5) and 

 slightly constricted before the rostrum and straight on the sides 

 as shown bj^ Text Fig. 21 a; antennse distinctly 14-jointed, long 

 and slender, light yellow, lighter coloured at the base and at the 

 tip, basal joint long and stout, 2nd hardly half so long, 3rd 

 of about the same size, 4th much longer, 5th slightly shorter, 

 6th of the same size as 4th, 7th to 13th gradually longer, 

 nearly three times as long as 

 broad; prothorax saddle-sha- 

 ped, raised in the front to a dar- 

 kly coloured ridge, with a light 

 median line; legs very long and 

 slender, abdomen with dorsal 

 chitinous plates light yellow ; 

 cerci stout, yellowish. 



Measurements: Lengthof 



body 4 mm, length of head Text Fir21. a Shape of head from 

 1,4 8 mm, length of snout 0,53above of soldier of Eutermes kimher- 



mm, breadth of snout at ^^^^^l':r:^To^'^;:^-.!It^lfM':ut 

 0,19 mm, breadth of head 0,97 wes Pulleinei Mjöb. n. sp. 

 mm, length of prothorax 0,2 9 mm, breadth of prothorax 

 0,57 mm, breadth of abdomen 0,87 mm. 



Worker. Head light reddish yellow, with a lighter me- 

 dian line and an oblique cross-suture dividing the reddish 

 colour into three sections, two lateral ones and one frontal 

 one, rounded at the sides and behind, broadest in front of the 

 antennae; basal part of clypeus broad and convex, divided 

 by a light median line, apical part whitish, protruding in an 

 obtuse tip in the middle of the front margin; labrum broad 

 and slightly rounded in front, sharply tapering on the sides 

 to the base; jaw stout, triangulär, with the ordinary Euter- 

 mes dentition, but the teeth very often worn and irregular 

 in shape; antennse whitish, 15-jointed, 3rd joint slightly longer 

 than the fourth, the following ones about twice as long as 



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