192 On Two new Termites from Uganda. 



Measurements : Males not plainly smaller than females. 

 Body, with head bent, 7 to 7*5 mm., with wings about 15'5 ; 

 fore wings, without stumps, 13'5 by 3'5 to 37 mm. 



Soldier. Large ; head one-third longer than wide, elongate 

 rectangular, sides almost parallel, tapering to mandibles, 

 very faintly and slightly constricted near hind margin, 

 dorsal profile incurvate behind frontal crest ; labrum yellow, 

 with pale base and tips, relatively short and deeply forked, 

 tips acuminate, diverging slightly, sides weakly un-dulate; 

 antennae IS-jointed, joint iii. shorter than iv., and iv. shorter 

 than V. ; mandibles robust, as long as head is wide, reddish 

 at base, the rest dense black. Pronotum with a short and 

 wide prozona, which is indented in the middle; the cephalic 

 edge is either straight with curved sides or faintly crenate. 



Measurements : Head height, 1*9 to 2 mm.; width, 2*3 to 

 2'4 mm. ; length, 3*3 to 3-5 mm. 



Uganda : Nkulukuku, 1921 (H. L. Duke) : 37 imagos, 

 11 soldiers, many workers. 



Types, British Museum; paratypes. Division of Entomo- 

 logy, Pretoria. 



This species belongs to the fungifaber group. 



Termes (Odontotermes) kibarensis, sp. n. 



Soldier. Head reddish yellow, with small but distinct 

 black eye- spots ; body creamy yellow. Head flatly lenticular ; 

 from above elongate-oval, narrowing plainly to cephalic 

 margin ; frontal area shallowly and broadly depressed in 

 clypeal region, behind this slightly raised, with characteristic 

 but faint sculpturing comprising a Y-shaped median carina, 

 the arms of the Y directed forward and usually embracing 

 a shallow round pit ; here are several short fine grooves 

 radiating forwards on each side of the carina ; antennae 

 17-3ointed5 joints iii. and v. short and narrow, v. somewhat 

 longer than iii., iv. about as large as vi. Mandibles black 

 with reddish bases, short and robust, about half the head 

 length ; step-like tooth of left with ledge at right angles to 

 margin of apical, tooth of right with ledge sloping away 

 from margin of apical. 



Measurements: Head with mandibles, 4*2 to 4*4 mm,; 

 without, 2*9 to 3*1 mm. ; head width, 2*4 to 2*45 mm. ; 

 mandibles, 1'4 to 15 mm. 



Uganda: Kibara, 1921 {H. L. Duke) : 30 soldiers. 



Types, British Museum ; paratypes, Division of Entomo- 

 logy, Pretoria. 



These soldiers belong to the monodon-badius series jmd 

 appear to stand near the minor soldier of fidens, Sjost. 



