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eyes. With them are two breeding males and one female; these 

 are brown. None of the specimens have antennae. 



Hagen's description of the imago of hrevis might be applied to 

 these except they are larger. 



The measurements of the imagos of the several Cr^ptotermes 

 discussed are contrasted be!ow in millimetres. 



Genus POROTERMES Hagen (1858). 



Porotermes planiceps (Sjostedt.) 



= Caloiermes planiceps Sjostedt (1904). 



= Porotermes (Planitermes) planiceps (Sjost.) Holmgren 

 1911). 



? == Calotermes amabilis Sjostedt (191 1). 



This species was described from soldiers and workers found in 

 a dead stick by Dr. L. Perinquey, at Ceres, Cape Province. I 

 understand from Dr. Perinquey that he has also seen the species 

 at Stellenbosch and on Table Mountain. Part of the original 

 type series is in the South African Museum at Cape Town. These 

 specimens I have examined. 



I have also a good series of soldiers and workers found by 

 Dr. Hans Brauns in the Montagu Pass, where he kindly made 

 a special search for the species on my behalf. They were found 

 in a fallen piece of dead wood. 



The imago of planiceps is as yet unknown. Sjostedt has, 

 however, described and named a winged termite from *' Kap- 

 land '* under the name Calotermes amabilis. This exhibits no 

 ocelli, and the absence of these organs coupled with other fea- 

 tures leads one to infer that amabilis is a Porotermes and, prob- 

 ably, the winged form of planiceps. 



