86 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 12. N:0 15. 



The species builds small nests of undetermined shape and 

 colour near the roots of trees or smaller, darker galleries in 

 rounded balls up to the size of a walnut under dead logs on 

 the ground. The winged inseets appear in November. Colos- 

 seum in Southern Queensland. 



38: Hamitermes lativeiitris n. sp. 



Imago. Very similar to the imago of H. ohtusidens Mjöb. 

 but the fontanelle broader and more rounded on the sides 

 and the reddish-yellow ring round the eyes not quite so 

 broad, dentition of jaws very similar; antennse also very simi- 

 lar, 15-jointed, but sometimes the third joint shows ten- 

 dency to divide itself into two very short joints, the 13th 

 and 14th joints are apparently longer than in H. ohtusidens 

 Mjöb., being twice as long as broad (in H. ohtusidens Mjöb. 

 not twice as long as broad); legs and abdomen similar; wings 

 also very similar in form and colour; the curved nervure 

 running out into the membrane and turning sharply towards 

 the top is lacking; mediana branched already near themiddle 

 of the wing, sending out two or three nervures, cubitus with 

 about 10 unforked oblique nervures; in the hindwing me- 

 diana is richly developed, sending out many branches to 

 the tip. 



Measurements: Length of body with wings 12 mm, 

 length of body without wings 7 mm, length of head 1,05 mm, 

 breadth of head l,i6 mm, length of prothorax 0,5 3 mm, 

 breadth of prothorax 0,95 mm, length of forewing 10,3 mm, 

 breadth of forewing 2,5 mm, length of hindwing 10 mm, 

 breadth of hindwing 3 mm, breadth of abdomen 1,5 mm. 



Soldier (Text Fig. 39 d). Light yellowish, head light red- 

 dish-yellow. 



Head very muchlarger than in H. ohtusidens Mjöb., higher 

 and more convex in the profil, sloping down sharply in front, 

 broadest in the middle, rounded behind and on the sides; 

 clypeus very small and narrow, whitish on the sides and a t 

 the front margin, which is slightly emarginate in themiddle; 

 labrum not broad, tapering sharply to the rounded tip; jaws 

 very broad and stout reminding very much of the jaws in 

 the soldier of H. oheuniis Silv., but not so strongly curved 

 at the tips, with the same deep incision forming a freely 



