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



Measurements: Length of body with jaws 6,2 mm, 

 length of head with jaws 3,2 mm, length of head without 

 jaws 1,0 9 mm, breadth of head 1,2 4 mm, length of pro- 

 thorax 0,44 mm, breadth of prothorax 0,7 mm, breadth of 

 abdomen 1,4 8 mm. 



Worker. Whitish, elongate, head very light yellow. 



Head rounded whitish in front, basal part of clypeus 

 swelled at the sides and in front, divided by a light median 

 line, apical part smaller, rounded at tip, with whitish median 

 line; left jaw with one sharp apical tooth and a smaller one 

 below and a rounded angular protruding part, the right one 

 with similar dentation; antennse 14-jointed, 2nd joint only 

 little shorter than 1st, 3rd and 4th short of about the same 

 length, 13th and 14th twice as long as broad; prothorax 

 ridged, hairy; abdomen rounded, pellucid, the dark content 

 of intestines shining through. 



Measurements: Length of body 4 mm, length of head 

 1,1 mm, breadth of head 0,8 7 mm, breadth of abdomen 

 1,0 mm. 



One winged insect and numerous soldiers and workers 

 found in a deserted nest of another termite (Coj)toiermes?) 

 in the open forest-country near Cedar Creek in North Queens- 

 land. 



I have named this species in honour of the Director of 

 the Queensland museum Dr Hamlyne Harris. 



42. Mirotermes Maideni n. sp. 



Soldier (Plate 2, Fig. 1). Body unusually large, whitish, 

 head light yellow, upper surface of frontal process lighter 

 coloured. 



Head longer than broad, large, rounded behind, with 

 nearly parallel sides, frontal process strong, turned upwards, 

 sharply pointed, hairy sides lined with darkbrown; labrum 

 whitish, with the anterior angles produced into sharp 

 tips; jaws long and stout, the left one with a very large 

 basal tooth; antennse 14-jointed, long and slender, basal 

 joint curved at the interiör margin, not twice as long as the 

 2nd, 3rd slightly longer than 4th, 5th and following gradually 

 longer, 8th to llth the longest, nearly three times as long 



