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to 16-5; span 33 to 34. In the series before me the ocelli of 

 the males are regularly shorter than those of the females (20: 23) 

 and in the females the ocelli almost touch the eyes, being removed 

 by about one-thirteenth of their long diameter, whilst in the males 

 they are removed by either one-third or one quarter of their 

 long diameter. 



The size of the head and pronotum is the same as with 

 A. schultzei. 



Locality: Delagoa Bay, Portuguese East Africa. 



Genus MACROTERMES. 

 = Termes s.lat. (sensu Holmgren). 



Macroiermes beUicosv!^ (Smeathman) s.lat. 

 = Termes beUicosus. Sm. (1781). 



This species was first recorded from South Africa by Hagen 

 but the records should be transferred to natalensis. In his Mono- 

 graph (1858) reference is made to imagos collected by Wahl- 

 berg and others by Drege, in the Supplement (1860) to imagos 

 and a queen from Port Natal. There is sufficient evi,dence 

 supplied by Hagen, quite apart from the localities given, to show 

 that the insects were not, or could not have been belUcosus and, 

 inferentially, could only have been natalensis. 



Two other records that are open to serious objection are those 

 of Sjostedt ( 1 900) . One relates to workers collected at Durban 

 (1898), the other to a " king " from Mphone, a mission station 

 near Woodbush. Pietersburg District. M. belUcosus does not 

 occur either at Durban or on the Pietersburg plateau, but 

 natalensis is abundant both at Mphone and Durban. 



All the major soldiers I have examined belong to that form of 

 beUicosus to which Hagen gave the varietal name of mossanibica 

 and are of a smaller and perchance more parallel-sided head type 

 than is belUcosus of the Belgian Congo. These soldiers are 

 decidedly characterized by the well defined sculpture of the frons. 

 This sculpture differs essentially from that of M. natalensis, 

 M. rvaterbergi and M. uJ^uzii. It is faintly linmed, however, on 

 the frons of M. usuiu and somewhat coarsely expressed on that of 



