510 TERMITIDES. 



T.fatalis? Female. — Ferruginous, pubescent: head a little 

 longer than broad, as broad as the thorax, tawny iu front and be- 

 neath : ocelli two, one on each side between the eyes, but at some 

 distance from them : mandibles broad, short, black towards the tips : 

 antennae 19-jointed, nearly as long as the head; joints of equal 

 length: prothorax obconical : abdomen linear, much longer than 

 the thorax, tawny beneath : legs tawny ; fourth joint of the tarsi 

 longer than the three preceding joints: wings brown, nearly twice 

 the length of the body ; no transverse subcostal veins ; discal lon- 

 gitudinal vein emitting about twelve secondary veins. Length of 

 the body 4£ lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



a. Gambia. 



T. fatalisP Labourer ? — Ferruginous, pubescent, sublinear, 

 tawny beneath : head nearly twice longer than broad, tawny in front, 

 depressed on the disk, with a convex protuberance between the an- 

 tennae, as broad as the thorax : ocelli two, 'one on each side, very 

 near the eye: mandibles black towards the tips: antennae tawny, 

 mutilated, longer than the head? prothorax scutcheon-shaped; fore 

 border nearly straight, indented in the middle ; hind border convex, 

 much narrower: mesothorax and metathorax with the basal parts 

 of wings : abdomen with nine segments of nearly equal size, a 

 little longer than the thorax : legs tawny. Length of the body 5 

 lines. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir. John Eichardson. 



9. Termes dirus. 



Fuscus ; ore, puncto frontali, an tennis, pedibus pectoreque ferrugi- 

 neis ; alee fuscescentes, costis duabus marginalibus corneis. 

 Long. 7; alar. 18 lin. 



Termes dirus, Klug. Burnt. Handb. Ent. ii. 2, 766, 8. Ramb. 



Hist. Nat. Ins. Near. 307, 13. 

 Termes flavicollis, Perty, Delect. Anim. Artie. Bras. 128, pi. 26, 



Termes obscurum, Blanch. Hist. Ins. pi. 47, f. 1. 

 Brazil. 



