524 AUSTRALIAN TERMITID^K, 



Calotermes insularis, White. 



Galotermes insalaris, White, Voy. Erebus & Terror, Zool. PI. ii. 

 (PL XXXV. fig. 4.) 



General colour bright fei-ruginous, wings hyaline, nervures 

 light brownish-yellow. Length to tip of wings 11, to the tip of 

 body 5 lines. 



Head longer than broad, rounded behind, widest Ijehind the 

 eyes, sloping on sides to apical margin, truncate in front, convex 

 on the summit, sharply sloping down on the forehead. E^'es 

 moderately large, round, coarsely faceted, projecting slightly on 

 the sides; ocelli large, round, contiguous to front of the inner 

 margin of the eyes. Antennte broken (probably about 20-jointed), 

 springing from a cleft in front of the eyes ; joints all parti- 

 coloured, the apical edges barred with pale yellow ; lst-3rd 

 cylindrical, basal ones largest, 4th orbiculate, the remaining ones 

 turbinate, lightly fringed with hairs. Clypeus wide at base, but 

 veiy narrow, sloping on the sides to rounded tips at the centre; 

 labrum broad, rounded in front. Prothorax very large, broader 

 than long, deeply concave in front, rotundate and rounded behind, 

 showing faint median suture ; meso- and metathorax much 

 narrower. Legs short, thighs broad and rounded; tibia? short, 

 with three stout spines at apex; terminal joint of the tarsi about 

 as long as the first three combined; plantula and claws large. 



Wings very long, four times as long as broad, rather sharp at the 

 tip ; scapular shield large, rounded, with the cross suture rounded 

 to subcostal, but transverse below, showing five parallel nervures; 

 subcostal nervures slender, running round the tip, with a stout 

 parallel-oblique ner\'ure branching out of it in the scapular shield, 

 connected with it beyond the scapular shield by two short oblique 

 nervures and joining it again about one-quarter from the base; 

 subcostal nervure running parallel with five stout parallel-oblique 

 nervures turning up into the costal and several smaller ones 

 forming a network between them at the tips; median nervure 

 running close to the subcostal with no upward cross nervure till 



