144 BIOLOGY OF NOETH AUSTBALIAN TERMITES, 



Pronotum saddle-shaped, the anterior half bent up shai-ply and narrowed 

 to the emarginate anterior margin, Viearing very few long reddish setae. 



Text-figs. 1-9. Eutermes vernoni, n.sp. 

 Head: 2. Antenna, proximal segments: 3- Pronotum and pos- 



Imago. 



Soldier. — 6. Head in profile; 6 



terior margin of meso- and metanotum; 4. Wing-membrane. 



-c TT_„j ; £1... a Head, dorsal surface; 7- Antenna, proximal 



segments. 

 Worker. — 8. Antenna, proximal segments; 9. Maxilla. 



Text-flgs. 10-11. Eutermes nigerrimus var. qu&enslandicus Mjob. 

 Soldier. — 10. Head in profile; 11. Head, dorsal surface. Drawn from 

 type. 



Legs very long and slender, clothed scantily with long and short reddish 

 setae; tibial spurs 2:2:2. 



Abdomen short and broad, bluntly rounded at the apex, tergites with scanty 

 fringe of long reddish setae as on thorax. 



Measurements : 



Head : long 1.74^1.83 mm., wide 1.00. 



Thorax and abdomen, long 2.72—2.91. 



Antennae (14-jointed) 2.40. 



Tibia iii. 1.50—1.60. 



Abdomen, wide 0.85. 



Worke', 



(Text-figs. 8, 9.) 



Colour: Head mummy brown above and behind, genae and postclypeus 

 cream, frontal and transverse sutures (Light, 1921) very distinct, pronotum brown, 

 not as dark as head, but darker tlian tergites of abdomen ; remainder of insect 

 whitish yellow. 



