28 Claude Fuller 



1.— CALOTERMES GROUP. 



Genus CALOTERMES Hagen. 



Calotermes durhanensis Haviland. 



= Calotermes madagascaremis Wasmann, Sjostedt (in part, 

 1900). 



This species belongs to the C .flavicollis group. No complete 

 description of the imago has been given, the species being erected 

 by Haviland on the soldier caste only. The imago is well known 

 to me, and I believe the species to be distinct from the insular 

 madagascarensis. There appears to be much in which the two 

 are alike, and it is to be remembered that Sjostedt reduced dur- 

 hanensis to a synonym of Wasmann's species on a comparison of 

 soldiers only. Unfortunately Wasmann's description does not go 

 far enough. However, he describes the pronotum of the winged 

 madagascarensis as short, broad and semilunar, a description that 

 does not fit the pronotum of diirhanes'is, which is sub-quadrangular. 

 Similarly, Wasmann's description of the pronotum of the soldier 

 does not apply. 



The soldiers of durbanensu differ from those of flavicollis in 

 not having the prominent third tooth (not counting the apical) 

 shown in Hagea's figure of the left mandible. Judging by the 

 same figure, the soldier pronotum of durhanensis appears more 

 like that of flavicollis than madagascarensis except that the hind 

 margin is rounded, not incurvate in the middle as appears to be 

 the case with both flavicollis and madagascarensis. 



Calotermes hraunsi n.sp. 



Through the kindness of Dr. Hans Brauns, I have from '* The 

 Wilderness " on the Cape South Coast soldiers and nymphs of a 

 Calotermes. These I regard as representing an undescribed 

 species. The soldier is readily distinguished from that of dur- 

 hanensis by having three distinct teeth below the apical, as figured 

 for flavicollis by Hagen. It differs from both flavicollis and 



