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along the grain of the wood, and retreating into the log when 

 disturbed. They are at once recognised by the large broad heads 

 of the soldiers and the presence of two different forms of soldier. 



The soldiers, like those of Calolermes, are very timid, never 

 showing tight, but hurrying away to shelter when disturbed, the 

 little soldiers being much the braver. I had never been able to 

 find the winged forms in our nests, but my friend Mr. Gilbert 

 Turner, of Mackay, was more fortunate, sending me down several 

 winged ones with workers and soldiers 



Early last year Mr. N. Holtze sent me a small bottle full of 

 winged ones that had been taken flying round the lamps at 

 Palmerston, Pt. Darwin. This species was described by Brauer, 

 the locality given being Sydney, N.S.W., but in a specimen sent 

 from the Vienna Museum, where his types are, the label attached 

 says, " Thorey, Cape York, 1868." 



//.t6.— Sydney and Newcastle, N.S.W. (W. W, Froggatt); 

 Mackay, Queensland (Mr. G. Turner); Port Darwin, IST.T. (Mr. 

 N. Holtze, Botanic Gardens). 



G L Y P T O T E R M I T I N .E. 



Genus Glyptotermks, g.n. 



Head broad; eyes moderately large, coarsely faceted; ocelli 

 close to the eyes; antennae short, 13- to 15-jointed, springing from 

 a circular cleft in front of the eyes. Prothorax convex in front, 

 rounded on the sides and convex behind, with a slight median 

 suture. Legs stout and rather short, with short thick spines at 

 apex of tarsi; plantula small. Wings slender, thrice as long as 

 broad; scapular shield small and angular showing the base of four 

 nervures: costal, subcostal and median nervures running close to 

 each other through the upper half of wing, subcostal generally 

 merging into the costal in the centre, but always separated 

 at the extremities; submedian running through the centre of the 

 wing; it and the oblique nervures often composed of fine dots. 



Small dark-coloured termites, with clouded opaque wings, living 

 in small communities in the trunks and bark of trees; soldiers 

 very few: these and the workers slender and cylindrical. 



