TERMITIDES. 509 



T. viator? — Piceous, linear, shining", bare, tawny beneath: 

 head snbelliptical, depressed between the eyes, tawny in front, 

 hardly broader than the thorax : ocelli two, one on each side, very 

 near the eye : antennae tawny : prothorax full twice longer than 

 broad, concave in front, convex on each side and behind where it is 

 slightly impressed : abdomen hardly broader or longer than the 

 thorax : legs tawny; fourth joint a little longer than all the other 

 joints : wings dingy whitish, slightly fawn-coloured along the fore 

 border, full twice the length of the body ; costal and subcostal veins 

 tawny, space behind the latter indistinctly and irregularly reticulated 

 with veinlets, some of these also occur in front of the discal longi- 

 tudinal vein ; the other veins almost colourless. Length of the 

 body 4 — 6 lines ; of the wings 20 — 36 lines. 



a, b. Port Natal. From Dr. Krauss' collection. 



8. Termes fatalis. 



Fuscus ; ore, antennis, pedibus, macula prothoracis media dorsoque 

 testaceis ; fronte subprominula ; alis fuscescentibus. Long. 

 7; alar. 18 lin. 



Termes fatalis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 87, 1. Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 



2, 765, 7. 

 Termes bellicosus, Smeathman, Phil. Trans, lxxi. 



Sierra Leone. 



T. fatalis P — Piceous, smooth, shining, bare, sublinear: head 

 elliptical, ferruginous, paler in front and beneath, a little shorter 

 than the rest of the body, with a porrect horizontal horn in front : 

 eyes very small, in a cavity on each side in front : ocelli none: man- 

 dibles long, curved, acute, unidentate, piceous except at the base : 

 palpi and antennae tawny : prothorax nearly semicircular, more than 

 twice longer than broad ; fore border straight, forming an acute 

 angle on each side, and with two porrect horizontal acute horns in 

 the middle: mesothorax and metathorax very short, angular on 

 each side: abdomen with nine short equal segments: legs tawny, 

 rather slender ; fourth joint of the tarsi longer than all the preced- 

 ing joints. Length of the body 2 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan, 



