538 AUSTRALIAN TERMITID^E, 



The above description is compiled from Hagen, who states that 

 he has seen three dried specimens in the Berlin Museum. 



Stolotermes ruficeps, Brauer. 



Reise Novara, Zool. Th., Neuroptera, p. 46. 



(PI. XXXVI. figs. 2-2a.) 



General colour dark reddish-brown, the under surface much 

 lighter, base of the joints of antennie fuscous. Length to the tip 

 of wings 5|^, to the tip of body 3|^ lines. 



Head spherical; convex on the summit, rounded from the base 

 to behind the eyes. Eyes large, projecting, coarsely faceted; 

 ocelli wanting. Antennae long, thickest towards the tips, 15- 

 jointed, springing from cleft in front of the eyes; 1st and 2nd 

 joints stout, cylindrical; 3rd very short; 4th-6th truncate at the 

 extremities, narrowest at the base; 7th to tip broad oval; the last 

 rounded at apex. Clypeus small, rounded in front; labrum large, 

 broad, rounded at tip; palpi rather short; jaws large, stout, with 

 three small rather blunt teeth near the tij? and one similar some 

 distance lower down, the base rounded. Prothorax narrow, not 

 as broad as the head, broader than long, almost truncate in front, 

 rounded on the sides, sloping to the hind margin, which is slightly 

 arcuate in the centre, flattened on the summit, with a median 

 suture running to base of abdomen, forming a dark line through 

 the centre of the meso- and metathorax. Legs moderately long; 

 thighs very stout; tibipe long, slender, and cylindrical, with the 

 tibial spines stout ; tarsi long, claws large. Abdomen long, 

 slender, cylindrical, broadest at the base, rounded at the apex ; 

 cerci short. 



Soldier. — Head bright yellow, ferruginous towards the apex; 

 jaws black, upper surface of the thorax brownish yellow, the rest 

 dull white. Length 3| lines. Head longer than broad, rounded 

 behind, flattened on the summit, straight on the sides, contracted 

 from the antennal cleft to the base of the jaws, sloping down, and 

 rugose upon the forehead : with very distinct faceted oval eyes 

 upon the sides of the head behind tlie antennje: antennse springino' 



