BY WALTER W. FROUGATT. 537 



Genus Stolotermes, Hagen. 

 Mon. Linn. Ent. xii. 1858, p. 105. 



Allied to Hodotennes, but having only about half the number 

 of joints in the antennae. Ocelli present. Prothorax heart- 

 shaped; first tarsal joint as long as those following. Venation 

 of the wings as in Hodotennes, but the straight median nervure 

 somewhat like that of Eutermes. Habits resembling Calotermes. 



Stolotermes bruneicorxis, Hagen. 



Mon. Linn. Ent. xii. 1858, p. 105, Tab. ii. f. 5. 



Dark brown; mouth parts, basal joints of antennje, under surface 

 of head and legs lighter coloured; wings fuscous, with the 

 nervures a little darker; head and thorax smooth and shining; 

 the whole insect rather long and thickly covered with hairs. 

 Length to tip of wings 6|, to tip of body 3 lines. 



Head small, circular, sloping in front, with a distinct median 

 suture, summit rugose. Eyes round, large; ocelli in front of the 

 inner margin of the eye; a large indistinct central false ocellus- 

 like spot. Antennae 16-jointed; first two cylindrical, of equal 

 length; the last ov'al, the rest cone-shaped. Clypeus small, short, 

 labrum circular, mussel-shaped. Prothorax much smaller than 

 head, broader than long, flat, rounded behind, contracted slightly 

 in front. Wings long, four times as long as broad; scapular 

 shield truncate, with five branches : costal and subcostal nervures 

 connected by 7-9 very sharp transverse parallel nervures, some- 

 times forked; first two basal ones not springing from subcostal; 

 median nervure running through the centre of the w-ing, with 

 from 7-9 oblique ner\'ures; submedian nervure very short, turned 

 down, with four short thick nervures. Legs robust; thighs broad; 

 tibifB long, with two spines at the apex; tarsi one-third the length 

 of the tibipe, the last joint a little longer than the first three 

 combined; plantula present. Abdomen broader than thorax, 

 oval; cerci large, cone-shaped; anal appendices in the male long, 

 slender. 



Hah. — Tasmania. 



