BY WALTER W. FROGGATT. 545 



some 12 or 14 irregular nervurea turning downwards : costal and 

 subcostal of hind wings as in forewings, but with median emei'ging 

 from subcostal at some distance from the scapular shield, and 

 running parallel with it to the tips; the whole of the wings 

 thickly covered with scars or pustules. Abdomen elongate-oval, 

 slender; cerci short and stout, well under the abdomen; anal 

 appendices wanting. 



Soldier. — Head bright reddish-brown, jaws black, labrum 

 luteous, prothorax ochreous, the rest dull yellow. Length 3 lines. 

 Head a little longer than broad, cylindrical, sides straight, sloping 

 in from behind the base of the antennae to the centre whei'e the 

 forehead is deeply cleft, forming a rounded hollow with a stout 

 knobbed protuberance on either side, and truncate below, and 

 overhanging clypeus, which is small and indistinct; labrvnn large, 

 flattened, spatulate, finely fringed with hairs; antenna? springing 

 out of a circular pit in line with the base of jaws, 15-jointed; 

 jaws short, ferruginous and very stout at the base, meeting at the 

 tips, with two stout angular teeth below the tip on the left side, 

 the jaw on the right side smooth to apex of labrum, where there 

 is one large tooth. A stout cylindrical finger-like projection 

 stands out on either side of the apical margin of head in front of 

 the antennal cleft. Prothorax saddle-shaped, slightly arcuate in 

 front, rounded on sides, and sloping back to apical edge which is 

 slightly concave in the centre; a fine median suture running 

 through the head and whole of the thorax; thot-ax and abdomen 

 forming a cylindrical body, nari'owing towards the tip, rather 

 hairy; legs short and stout. 



Worker about the same length and shape as the soldier, with 

 the exception of the head, which is almost spherical; labrum 

 quadrate; anal appendices very fine, slender, projecting beyond 

 the tip of the abdomen; general colour dull white. 



Hah —VvaXlii, KS.W. (Mr. G. McD. Adamson). 



Described from specimens received from the collector in spirits, 

 and obtained by him in a log. 



