BY WALTER W. FROGGATT. 515 



rudimeutai'y wings as she has. I have as many as ten supple- 

 mentai'y queens taken from a single mound. Miiller was the 

 first to notice the forms when working out the life-histories of the 

 termites of Santa Catherina in Brazil*; in one nest he found 31 

 complementary queens. Besides these there are larvte in all stages 

 of growth, from minute little creatures just emerged from the 

 eggs to pupiv with the wing-cases extending half way down the 

 back; as well as young workers and soldiers, the latter showing 

 the alteration in the form of the head before the last moult. 



Lately near Newcastle when turning over some logs I found a 

 nest of Kutermes fuviigahis, Brauer, in which the queen was 

 exposed in the centre of the irregular galleiies damaged by the 

 removal of the log; and among the Eutermes I found six or seven 

 reddish-brown perfect insects (excepting that they were minus 

 their wings) of some undetermined species of Calotermes; these 

 did not seem to be quite at home, but had evidently crawled in 

 under the log for shelter, and thus found their way into the nest. 



The family Termitidcc has been divided into seven genera, and 

 four subgenera, several comprising both fossil and existing species, 

 others only modern forms, and three fossil species only. 



Though a good deal of work has been done by entomologists 

 upon this family it has always been upon different genera. The 

 late Dr. ITagen's Monograph upon the l'erm,ituhn is our only 

 guide to the general classification of the family, and this was 

 published nearly 40 years ago. His projjosed Monograph upon 

 their anatomy was never published, beyond a short paper on 

 Erderme.s rippertii.^ His classification is chiefly founded upon 

 the structure of the wings, the ocelli, the number of joints of the 

 antennae, the shape of the prothorax, and the tibial spines. 



Following this very natural classification, I have considered 

 his four subgenera as genera, and further grouped them into 



* Fritz Miiller, " Beitriige zur Kenntniss tier Termiten." Jen. Z. Nat. vii. 

 pp. 337, 463. 



+ Psyche v. pp. 20.3-8, 1SS9. 



