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(a). The "neck" of the soldier mandible is the part between 

 the wide base and falcate blade. 



(b). The clypeus of the soldier is described as "long" when 

 the length is approximately half the width, as "short" 

 when the length is from one-third to one-quarter the 

 width. 



(c). Of the species introduced into the synopsis those described 

 by Silvestri {paucinervius, scminotus and runconifer,) 

 have not come under my notice. 



Hamitermes hastatus Hav. (1898). 



This species is remarkable for the great difference in the size 

 of the wings of the two sexes. The details given in the synopsis 

 are drawn from an ample nest series collected at Zwartkops 

 (1914) about seven miles from Port Elizabeth. 



Hamitermes runconifer Sil. (1908). 



This species is reported from Kooa-Sekgoma in the Kalahari 

 (Nov. 1904). I have not been able to reconcile any of the 

 material before me with Silvestri's species and this leads me 

 to gravely doubt Holmgren's Zululand record (1913), more 

 especially as soldiers I possess from the same and neighbouring 

 terrains are quite unrelated to either hastatus or runconifer. 



Hamitermes seminotus (Silv.). 



^= Eutermes (s. lat.) seminotus S'A\, (1908). 



Although I have been unable to secure material of this 

 Kalahari (Kooa) species, ! have no hesitation in regarding semi- 

 notus as belonging to Hamitermes. 



Hamitermes paucinervius (Silv.). 



==^' Eutermes (s. lat.) paucinervius Silv. (1908). 



— ? Suhulitermes paucinervius Holmg. (1912). 



This Kalahari (Khakhea) species also belongs to Hamitermes, 

 not to Suhulitermes as suggested by Holmgren. 



