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(2) Soldiers small, very few in colony; mandibles short; 

 liead hardly longer than body. Distribution: Natal, 

 Cape (East Coast). Cryptotermes (2 spp). 



B. Living in dead wood ; so far only found in mountainous 



parts of southern Cape Province. Soldiers with strong 

 toothed mandibles ; mandibles plainly downbent ; facet- 

 ted eyes large; accompanied by workers. Biology not 

 well understood. Porotermes (1 sp). 



C. Making nests of carton in hollows, that are due to decay, 



in trunks and limbs of standing trees. Soldiers and 

 workers found below long individual galleries of carton 

 extending up and down trunk and branches. Workers 

 boring for food in dead limbs. Soldiers of two very 

 distinct castes, both castes exhibiting a very distinct 

 labrum which is deeply grooved and possesses a flm- 

 brinate tip. Distribution : Coast of Natal and ZululaDd, 



Schedorhinotermes (1 sp.) 



II* Nesting in soiil. 



A. Nests independent; capable of being lifted out bodily, 



unless, as sometimes happens, attached to dead roots ol 

 stumps. Nests made of a black or black-brown carton 

 like substance. Nests ranging in size from that of the 

 egg of a goose to that of an ostrich, rarely larger. Sol- 

 diers small ; heads cylindrical, both mandibles alike, 

 both finely serrate. Distribution: General. 



Eutermes spp. 



B. Nests never independent. 



(1) With little or no surface indication of nest-site. 



a. Harvesters, Workers large with brown or black 

 heads and large facetted eyes ; to be seen 

 dragging or carrying short grass-lengths into 

 openings in soil. Soldiers large, yellow headed 

 with black eyes and strongly toothed mandibles. 

 Workers may often be found making loose piles 

 of earth like mole-hills, each pile with a clay, 

 tubular core. Nests are large globular cavities in 

 soil ; cavities filled with closely set shelving made 

 of a very fragile carton. (Exception, H, Thom^ 

 seni. This species builds a large, hard, clay cone 

 over nest in De Ghoup of the Karroo.) Distri- 

 bution: General. Hodotermes, spp. 



b. Fungus growers. Workers feeding on dead grass, 

 wood, and dung, always constructing a canopy of 

 clay. Sometimes found feeding on dead bark 

 and fencing poles. 



(i) Nests as large globular cavities with clay 

 brackets and a large fungus garden. Sol- 

 diers about as large as largest workers, 

 with one large tooth on left mandible. 

 aa. Only known from Humansdorp, Cape, 

 S.E Termes capensis. 



