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near the tip, where several short ones form an irregular network, 

 but having a number of short spine-like nervures along the lower 

 margin; submedian nervure running through the middle of the 

 wing, turning downwards before reaching the tip, with six stout 

 oblique unbranched nervures at the basal portion, and nine fine 

 oblique nervures beyond ; the whole wing finely covered with 

 indistinct veinlets giving it a frosted appearance. Alxlomen very 

 short and thick, smooth and shining; with the cerei of usual size; 

 anal appendices undistinguishable. 



Hah. — Melbourne, Victoria (Mr. Kershaw). 



Only one dry pinned specimen, from the National Museum, 

 Melbourne, but ver}^ distinct from any of my other species, and 

 remarkable for the very long wings. 



Calotermes irregularis, n.sp. 



(PL XXXV. figs. 1, Irt, 16). 



Head ferruginous; thorax and abdomen ochreous; antenna?, legs 

 and under surface lighter coloured; wings pale ochreous, with the 

 nervures fuscous. Length 8 lines to tip of wings; body 4:% lines. 



Head rounded behind, longer than broad, sloping in from the 

 eyes to the clypeus, lightly clothed with a few scattered hairs. 

 Eyes very large, projecting; ocelli large, rounded oval, contiguous 

 to the centre of inner margin of eyes. Antennae 19-jointed, 

 hirsute; 1st joint lai'ge, cylindrical, springing from a shallow 

 antennal cleft below the eyes; 2nd cylindrical, smaller, and half 

 the length; 3rd more rounded at the tip; 4th shortest; 5-12 moni- 

 liform, slightly increasing in size toward the extremity; 13-18 

 longer, turbinate, with the last elongate-oval. Clypeus small, 

 rounded in front, sloping on sides, broadest behind; labrum large, 

 shell-shaped, rounded in front; jaws large, stout, with the apical 

 tooth large, curved inwards, a short conical one below, with two 

 stout angular ones towards the base. Prothorax as broad as tlie 

 head, slightly concave in front, rounded on the sides, truncate 

 behind, showing a slight median suture; mesothorax narrow, with 



