442 MK. -R. T. POCOCK ON SOME OLD-WORLD 



side and a median wide fuscous patch ; ttis median patcli inter- 

 rupted on each side of the median keel by a single conspicuous 

 subcircular testaceous spot ; tail infuscate beneath ; legs fuscous, 

 variegated with testaceous spots ; humerus and brachium, resem- 

 bling the legs in colour ; manus wholly pale, digits infuscate. 



CepJialotJioracc lightly emarginate in front, finely and closely 

 granular throughout; the median depression deep behind, shallow 

 over the tubercle, widened behind and in front of it. 



Termites thickly covered with larger and smaller granules, the 

 first six furnished with a long median granular keel, the last with 

 a median granular keel in its anterior half and two long, anteriorly 

 abbreviated, subparallel, granular keels on each side. 



Sternites almost wholly smooth, the last furnished with four 

 long granular keels, whereof the external are more complete than 

 the internal. 



Tail long, slender, and nearly parallel-sided; upper surface 

 scarcely excavated ; the intercarinal spaces at most very weakly 

 granular ; the first segment furnished with ten weakly denticulate 

 keels, whereof the median lateral is obsolete in front; the second 

 and third segments furnished with eight keels similar to those on 

 the first ; the terminal denticle of the four superior keels on each 

 of these segments very much enlarged and bluntly spiniform; the 

 two superior keels of the fourth segment almost obsolete, the 

 inferior keels resembling those of the preceding segment ; the 

 fifth segment weakly granular above but without keels, the 

 inferior keels resembling those of the preceding segment. 



Vesicle absent. 



Palp. — Upper surface of humerus y^itla. two granular keels, pos- 

 terior surface granular and weakly dentate, anterior surface 

 armed with larger and smaller teeth ; hracMum also furnished 

 with larger and smaller teeth in front, furnished with weakly 

 granular keels above and below. Manus large and round, 

 subdentate in front, subcostate but not granular above ; digits 

 long, slender, curved and costate, somewhat widely separated at 

 the base owing to the deep sinuation of the immovable digit ; 

 the movable not furnished with a basal lobe. 



Legs granularly costate; inferior surface oi^e femora distinctly 

 and coarsely serrate ; tihice of two posterior pairs furnished with 

 a small apical spur. 



Fectines absent. 



Measurements in millimetres. — Total length (without vesicle) 



