BY WALTER W. FHOCiflATT. 547 



Hah. — Frankston, Victoria (Mr. "NV. Kershaw, National 

 Museum). 



Tliis species is described from a single pinned specimen in ,i;ood 

 preservation; and is very distinct from any other species known 

 to me. 



Glyptotermes brevicorxis, n.sp. 

 (PI. XXXVI. figs. 6, 6a). 



Upper surface pale ochreous; wings semitransparent, nervures 

 brown tinged with yellow ; under surface, legs, and antennfe 

 stramineous. Length to tip of Avings 5, to tip of body '2\ lines. 



Head a little longer than broad, rotundate, broadest between 

 the eyes, rounded on the summit, with a slight median suture at 

 the base. Eyes small, circular, not very prominent; ocelli oval, 

 contiguous and in a line with the apical margin of the eyes. 

 Antennfe 13-jointed, 1st joint large, cjdindrical; 2nd shorter, 

 cylindrical; 3rd-4th orbiculate; 5th-12th turbinate; the terminal 

 one oval. Clypeus widest behind, narrow, truncate in front, 

 sloping back on the sides ; labrum broad, rounded on the 

 sides, and rather truncated in front ; jaws broad, with three 

 short blunt teeth at apex, the edge roughened towards base. 

 Prothorax not as broad as head, concave in front, rotundate 

 on the sides and behind, with a slight depression at the apex, 

 a dark median line running from the base through the meso- 

 and metathorax. Legs shoi't and thick, thighs large; tibiae slender 

 armed with five stout spines at the apex; terminal joint of tarsi 

 large; claws large; plantula small. Wings slender, twice as lono' 

 as broad ; scapular shield slender, rounded at the cross suture 

 clouded with fuscous extending into the base of the wino'; costal 

 subcostal, and median nervures running parallel, close too'ether 

 the last extending a little further round the tip of wino-; sub- 

 median opaque at base, running through middle of wino-, with 

 three stout oblique nervures at the Ijase, the apical one indistinct 

 about eleven in number, forming slender dotted nervelets turnin"- 

 downwards; the whole of the wings covered with minute spots 



