Ml!. G. D. HAVILAND ON TERMITES. 399" 



Teemes tenuioe, n. sp, (PI. 24. figs, 34-37.) 

 Male 5 mm. long, slender, umbrinous above, pale below, legs 

 and anteanse pale. Head short, ovate, convex in profile. Ocelli 

 approximated to the eyes. Fenestra very obscure. Tour obscure 

 pale spots form a curve nearly on a level with the ocelli. An- 

 tennae of 15 segments, the 2nd longer than the 3rd, the others 

 increasing in size towards the apex. Epistoma scarcely promi- 

 nent. Pronotum with anterior margin slightly bilobed, lateral 

 margins rapidly converging, and posterior margins obscurely 

 lobed. The posterior margins of the mesonotum and metanotum' 

 narrow. Anterior wing-stumps much larger than the posterior, 

 but not overlapping them. Wings 6*5 mm. long, 1*6 mm. broady 

 hairy, avellaneous ; the faint median runs midway between the 

 submedian and subcostal, taking a straight unbranched course to 

 the apex of the wing ; near the end of the subcostal, the sub- 

 median is faint and runs to the apex of the wing, it gives off" about 

 11 branches. The hind legs do not reach the apex of the 

 abdomen. Abdomen slender, hairy. Abdominal papilla? present, 

 but minute. 



Pemale with the ventral plate of the 7th abdominal segment 

 long, with parabolic posterior margin. 



Soldier 4 mm. long ; mandibles dark, head ochraceous ; thorax 

 and abdomen milk-white. Plead 1"3 mm. long, '8 mm. broad, in 

 profile prominent above the level of the antennae. Antennae of 

 13 segments, the 2nd sometimes longer, sometimes shorter than 

 the 3rd. Labrum lanceolate acute, reaching to tlie middle of the 

 mandibles. Mandibles "8 mm. long, narrow, the pointed tip 

 slightly incurved, the cutting- margin toothless. Grula narrow 

 in the basal half, broadening rapidly in the apical half. Pro- 

 notum nearly as long as broad, with bilobed anterior margin, 

 converging lateral margins, and slightly lobed posterior margin. 

 Hind legs not reaching to the end of the abdomen. Abdomen 

 rather slender. Abdominal papillae present. 



"Worker 8*5 mm. long. Head stramineous. Antennae of 

 13 segments, the 2ud long, the 3rd very short. Pronotum sub- 

 semilunar. Abdomen fusiform. 



Hah. Borneo (Sarawak). Tjpe, No. 418. 



Termes tenuis, Hagen. 



Male 5'5 mm. long, slender, isabellinous. Head ovate, in 

 profile prominent between the eye?. Ocelli absent. Fenestra. 



