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subfamilies l:)ased ui)on the neuration of tlie wings, also taking 

 into account the habits, and the form of the soldiers, which seem 

 to be very similar in most of the genera I have observed. In the 

 case of tlie genus llodotennes and the two subgenera Stolotei'nies and 

 Porotermes I have been somewhat puzzled. In Hagen's definition 

 of Hodotermes he says " ocellis nullis," but in his figure of //. via for 

 (Tab. iii. fig. 8) he shows lateral ocelli, and in the Cambridge 

 Natural History, published last year (Vol. v. p. 556), a figure 

 of Hodotermes mossamhicus is given " after Hagen," in which the 

 lateral ocelli are most distinctly drawn. The only species of this 

 group that I have in my collection is a doubtful species of 

 Stolotermes ritjiceps, Brauei", which has no ocelli, and among all 

 my Australian specimens I have not yet found any that can be 

 placed in this group, but an allied group for which I propose the 

 name of Giyptotermitinm takes their jDlace in the Australian fauna.. 

 I have placed the genus Rhinotermes after the Calolermitince from 

 a careful study of their habits and the robust form of the wing. 

 I was acquainted with a very curious white ant with two very 

 different-looking kinds of soldiers, but of which I had never seen 

 winged forms among the New >South Wales specimens; but in a 

 collection from Queensland I found a number of winged specimens 

 that on comparison with a co-type of Brauer's Rhiiioternies inter- 

 medium (for which I am indebted to the Director of the Austrian 

 Museum) turned out to be this species. I also have another 

 species of the genus with identical habits which has been sent to 

 me from Kalgoorlie, West Australia, l^y my father, with a full 

 . account of its habits. 



In the term used for the venation of the wings I have followed 

 Hagen. But when using the words " scapular shield," I mean 

 that portion of the wing between the body and the cross suture 

 (the "basal scale" of Scudder); its form and structure appear to 

 be very consistent in the different genera. 



Family TERMITID^. 

 1. Subfamily CALOTERMITINiE. 



Wings robust; scapular shield broad, with five or more branches 

 from the base. Costal and subcostal nervures connected 1)}^ 



