86 Claude Fuller 



( 1 783) it is not difficult to place the type localities of capensia 

 as fairly near the sea at St. Francis Bay. His tale of the 

 vicious behaviour of the soldiers, as given in both the English 

 and German versions, should not be taken seriously since there 

 is an obvious confusion of notes. 



I have not been successful in obtaining specimens from the 

 type locality and to the present this species and its biology is 

 unknown. However, I possess some fragmentary imagos with the 

 wing span of T. capensis. Three of these are from Port Alfred; 

 in their dry condition they are black and have no ridge connecting 

 the ocelli. One is brownish and exhibits a distinct ridge connect- 

 ing the ocelli; this comes from Grahamstown, and may represent 

 an undescribed species. I have also a winged male from Peddie; 

 this is in alcohol and the body colours are dark brown. Other- 

 wise it agrees with the material from Port Alfred and was 

 captured on the wing in company with many imagos of Hodo- 

 termes peringuey^i I am inclined to regard this insect as 7*. 

 capensis. In colour and general appearance it agrees with T, 

 vulgaris Haviland but exhibits a slightly flatter and wider head, 

 a wider clypeus, a wider pronotum and a larger eye. It is 

 distinguishable from T. vulgaris s.sp. minor, on these characters 

 and in being paler bodied and in not having the area bearing 

 the fontanelle raised. 



The measurements are a little below those recorded for capensis. 

 Body, with head extended, 15; body with wings 27; forewing 

 with stump 23, without 22; span 49; head across eyes 2*8. 



Termes caffrariae Sjost (1900). 



= T. capensis Hagen, in part (1858). 



The winged imago is strikingly different from other local 

 congenerics and, once known, can be recognised at a glance by 

 its black and polished body and the short reddish wings with their 

 peculiarly distinct venation. 



The soldier bears mandibles that only differ from those of 

 later icius in the presence of one or two small prominences in the 

 incurvature separating the cutting margin^ from the basal pro- 

 tuberance of the left. The head as a whole is much like that of 



