544 AUSTRALIAN TERMITID.E, 



Glyptotermes tuberculatus, n.sp. 



(PL XXXV. figs. 9, 9a.) 



General colour pale ochreous; legs and antennaj paler; wings 

 vitreous, with the nervures fuscous at base and light ferruginous 

 towards the tips. Length to tip of wings 6, to tip of body 2i 

 lines. 



Head broader than long, broad behind, almost quadrate, 

 truncate in front, convex on the summit. Eyes standing out on 

 the sides of the head, large and circular, coarsely faceted; ocelli 

 round, in line with the apical margin of eyes. Antennae short, 

 rather hairy, springing out of a deep antennal cleft in front 

 of the eyes, 15-jointed; 1st stout, cylindrical; 2nd and 3rd shorter, 

 cylindrical, broadest at apex; 4th-14th short, broad, cup-shaped, 

 rather broader towards the extremities, with the last joint oval. 

 Clypeus rounded behind, produced into flanges on the side, 

 narrower, truncate and quadrate in front; labrum broad, rounded 

 in front, shell-shaped; jaws rather stout, with three sharp teeth 

 at the tip; palpal joints very short and oval. Prothorax quadrate, 

 slightly turned up on the edge, slightly concave in front, straight 

 on the sides, truncated behind, with a depression in the centre 

 and a slight suture, rough and flattened on summit. Legs short; 

 thighs thick, rather cylindrical; tibite with three or four stout 

 spines at apex; tarsi with the last joint very lai-ge; plantula 

 present. Wings more than thrice as long as broad, rounded at tip, 

 wliitish when drj^, very thin and easily torn; scapular shield 

 narrow and angular, the cross suture truncate, the base of the 

 first three nervures meeting on the upper edge, the lower sulj- 

 median indistinct; costal, subcostal, and median nervures (the 

 first strengthened at the extreme base by a short transverse 

 parallel nervure running from the subcostal into the costal) 

 running parallel and close together to the tip of wing; submedian 

 nervure weak and irregular, running through the middle of the 

 wing, without any stout oblique nervures at the base, but with 



