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Adamson's Calotermes (Calotermes adatnsoni, Froggatt). 



This white ant is common in the Uralla district, where they are found 

 in small families in dead logs and stumps, forming irregular galleries. 



The winged form has the head ferruginous; thorax dull yellow; wings 

 pale fuscus; it measures nearly § of an, inch in length to the tip of the 

 wings, and \ of an inch to the tip of the body. The wings are long and 

 slender, rounded at the tips. The soldier has a bright reddish brown 

 head, a little longer than broad and flattened on the summit; jaws short 

 and stout, with three sharp incised teeth on the upper portion and one large 

 ono below on the left hand, and only one curved fang near the tip, and a 

 broad angular tooth below on the opposite side. The winged form differs 

 from the other members of the genus in having no ocelli, but as the wings 

 are so typical it should, I think, be included in the genus. 



Genus II. — Stoloterines, Hagen. 

 These termites are allied to the members of the American genus Hodo- 

 termes, but differs in having few joints in the antennoe ; ocelli present in 

 the winged insects, and a heart-shaped prothorax ; the tarsi with the first 

 joint as long as the succeeding ones. The wings are small with the 

 straight medium nervure like those of the Eutermes. They live in small 

 communities like the Calofermes, and though no species have been found 

 on the mainland, one has been described by Hagen from Tasmania, and 

 another by Brauer from New Zealand; and it is apparently not uncommon 

 in some districts. 



Stoloterme>i hruneicoriiis, Brauer. 



It is a dark brown species with fuscus wings, measuring slightly over 

 \ an inch in length, and about \ to the tip of the body. Antennae, 

 16-jointed. Hagen described it from three specimens in the Berlin 

 Muesum. I have never been able to find it in Tasmania. 



Stolotermes ruficeps, Brauer. 



This specie., was collected during the voyage of the " Novara " at New 

 Zealand, and is apparently not uncommon, as I have had specimens sent 

 from Drury several times. It is slightly smaller than the former specie?, 

 of a more reddish-brown colour, with a spherical head and fifteen joints 

 on the antennae. The soldier has a bright yellow head, longer than broad, 

 ; stout curved jaws, with two blunt teeth in the centre, and a pair of distinct 

 facetted eyes. 



SUB-FAMII.T III. — RHINOTERMITINiE. 



This division contains the single genus Bhinotermes, which Hagen used 

 as a sub-genus, placing in it three species from the West Indies and 

 Brazil, and a fourth from Australia, which he distinguished chiefly by 

 the structure of the front part of the head, which is cleft, and the venation 

 of the winsfs. 



