BY WALTER W. FROGGATT. 539 



from a cleft in front of the head, 15-jointed, the basal joints as in 

 the winged insect, with the apical joint stouter and not so stalked; 

 clypeus small; labrum broadest at base, rounded on the sides to a 

 rounded tip; jaws stout at the base, curved in at the tips, and 

 crossing each other in the middle, with two broad angular teeth 

 in the centre. Prothorax not as broad as the head, arcuate and 

 broadest in front, rounded and sloping sharply on the sides to 

 the apical margin; legs short; thighs very thick; tibife slender, 

 with the two inner spines at base very close together; abdomen 

 rather large, oval: cerci small. 



Ilab. — Drury, New Zealand (Captain T. Broun). 



I have no workers in my collection, all other examples sent 

 with the soldiers being pupte with short wing-cases. 



Spirit specimens of this species were sent to me by the Govern- 

 ment Entomologist of New Zealand, but without any notes upon 

 their habits. 



The soldiers are remarkable for their distinctly faceted eyes, 

 though some species of the Hodotermes group are also known to 

 have soldiers provided with eyes. In an African termite CHodo- 

 tennes hnvilawli) which is figured in the Cambridge Natural 

 History, and described as going about in the bright sunlight, 

 similar eyes are very distinct. 



R H I N O T E K M I T I N ^. 



Genus Rhinotermes, Hagen.' 



Head as broad as long; forehead flattened, with a parallel cleft 

 through the centre of the rhinarium, which px'ojects slightly in 

 front, forming with the lobed clypeus a snout-like process. Eyes 

 small, coarsely faceted; ocelli present, with a circular false 

 ocellar spot in the Ijase of the cleft : antennie 20-jointed. Pro- 

 thorax not as wide as the head, rounded in front. Legs stout, 

 with two spines at the apex of the tibite; plantula wanting. 

 Wings short and broad, rounded at the tips; scapular shield short 

 and Vjroad, swelling out and slightly convex at the cross suture; 

 costal and subcostal nervures stout, well separated at the base, 



