92 ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 12. NIO 15. 



41. Mirotermes Harrisi n. sp. 



Imago (Pl. 2, Fig. 9, Text Fig. 45). Body elongate, with 

 parallel sides, light yellow, head, prothorax and chitinous 

 plates of abdomen dark brown; eyes black. 



Head, small rounded, flattened on the summit, emargi- 

 nate in front, darker brown than other parts, with numerous, 

 small, rounded, yellow spöts and a larger, yellow spöt near 

 the sides behind the basal part of clypeus; eyes very large, 

 rounded coarsely faceted, projecting, surrounded with a nar- 

 row reddish-yellow ring; ocelli very large, rounded, almost 

 circular; fontanelle consisting of a very narrow streaklike 

 yellow spöt with a small rounded one immediately in front 



C. 



Text Fig. 45. a Left jaw of imago of Mirotermes Harrisi Mj öb. n. sp. 

 b Prothorax » » » » » » » 



c Labrum » soldier » » » » » 



of it; basal part of clypeus light yellow, rounded and tapering 

 on the sides towards the truncate front margin; apical part 

 whitish, rounded; labrum of moderate size, rounded at tip; 

 jaws stout, with very characteristic dentition, the left jaw 

 with a very sharp, large apical tooth and a double one im- 

 mediately below, consisting of a large anterior tooth and a 

 smaller, rounded posterior one, both united by a thin por- 

 tion, further below there is a characteristic and beautifully 

 sculptured rounded portion, the right has a large curved 

 apical tooth, a second not so sharp one further down and a 

 rounded basal part; antennse long, dark fuscous-brown, basal 

 joint very stout, twice as long and twice as broad as the 

 2nd, 3rd a double-joint with a light cross-suture, but not 

 showing any lateral incisions, considerably longer than 2nd, 



