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ARKIV FÖR ZOOLOGI. BAND 12. N:0 15. 



tition of jaws characteristic, the left one with a very sharp 

 apical tooth and a median triangulär one further down, basal 

 portion small, rounded, projecting, the right one with a large 

 apical tooth and a median obtuse, triangulär one, basal por- 

 tion not projecting; antennse 14-jointed, 14th the longest, 



about thrice as long as broad; 

 prothorax slightly ridged in front, 

 whitish ; abdomen rounded, shortly 

 hairy. 



Measurements: Length of 

 body 4,2 mm, length of head 0,86 

 mm, breadth of head 1 mm, breadth 

 of abdomen 1,5 mm. 



A characteristic species easily 

 recognizable by its broad and short 

 head and the peculiar frontal pro- 

 cess. It does not seem to build 

 its own nests, but lives in the side- 

 Text Fig. 50. Profile from above galleries of Eutermes nigerrimus 



of head of soldier of M. -a/r •• • ^^ •.• 



Mjob. in smaller communities. 



broomensis Mjöb. 



Broome, N. W. Australia. 



64. Hamitermes alicensis n. sp. 



Soldier (Text Figs. 51, 52). Head 

 light yellow, abdomen dark. 



Head long and broad, with parallel 

 sides, rounded behind; frontal process 

 very small, sharply turned up at the 

 tip, with a small fuscous tubercle on 

 eachside; labrum fairly broad, slightly 

 prolonged into tips at the anterior 

 angles; jaws long, black, irregularly 

 curved; antennse 14-jointed, 3rd joint 

 broader than 2nd and 4th, 7th to ilth 

 long and slender, 12th shorter, foUow- 

 ing two joints longer again, apical 

 one pointed; prothorax small, slightly 

 Text Fig. 51. Profile from ridged in f ront, thickly hairy, abdomen 



above of soldier ol H. 



alicensis Mjöb. Clark. 



