BY A. RAFPRAY. 245 



lateribus paullo tan turn rotundatis, antice vix magis convergenti- 

 bus quam postice; processus clypeo imminens apice truncatus, 

 foramine magno, aperto; prope foramen utrinque punctum 

 nigrum prominens. Antennae 15 articulatae, capitis longitudine, 

 crassse, ab articulo 2° usque ad medium sensim incrassataa, dein 

 apicem versus sensim attenuate, articulis pra?sertim mediis sub- 

 globosis. Labrum lanceolatum, acutum, mandibulorum medium 

 haud attingens. Mandibulse nigra?, capite triente breviores, sub- 

 rectse, apice tantum curvatse, haud dentatse. Prothorax capite 

 fere duplo angustior, basin versus valde angustatus, subtri- 

 angularis, margine antico et postico truncatis et in medio paullo 

 incisis, lateribus prothoracis subrectis, angulis anticis rotundatis. 



It does not agree with any of the Australian species described 

 by Mr. W. W. Froggatt. 



It belongs to the genus Termes, L., subgenus Coptotermes, 

 Wasm. It is nearly allied to the Indian Coptot. Gestroi, Wasm., 

 (Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. [2] xvi. p. 628), and travians, Havil., (Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. Vol. xxvi. p. 391), but differs specifically 

 by the longer, cylindrical-oval head; by the antenna? thickened in 

 the middle, with nearly globose joints ; by the truncate hind 

 margin of the prothorax, whose sides are also much more narrowed 

 towards the base. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE X. 



Fig. 1. — Hamotulus dispar. 



Fig. 2. , palpus. 



Fig. 3. — Gnesion rufulum. 



Fig. 4. , palpus. 



Fig. 5. — Leanyvius palpalis. 



Fig. 6. , palpus and cardo. 



Fig. 7. — Homatopsis Axistralasim. 



Fig. 8. , palpus. 



Fig. 9. — Eupines diversicolor, antenna (J^). 

 Fig. 10. — Eupinoda divefsicomis, antenna (J"). 

 Fig. 11. — Eupines nigriceps, antenna (£). 

 Fig. 12. — Eupinoda amplipes, posterior leg (J^). 

 Fig. 13. , anterior leg (<?). 



