A NEW AUSTRALIAN TERMITE. 

 By Gehald F. Hill. 



(With 4 Text-flgaires). 



[Read 26th July, 1922.] 



Calotebmes (Calotermes) condonensis^ n.sp. (Text-figvS. 1-4.) 



Colour: Head hazel, anterior part dark castaneous like base of mandibles; 

 antennae hazel, third joint dark; labrum lighter in colour than rest of head; 

 mandibles black excepting at base; thorax a little lighter than back of head; 

 legs and abdomen buckthorn brown. 



Head (Text-fig. 1) clothed with scanty, very short and fine setae as on 

 thorax, legs and abdomen; large, slightly wider at the anterior third than across 

 the middle, broadly rounded behind, front slightly concave, not glabrous like re- 



Text-tig-s. 1-4. Calotermes condonensis, n.sp. 

 Soldier. — 1. Head from above. 2 Antenna, proximal segments. 

 3. Hind femur and tibia. 4. Hind tarsi and claw 



mainder of head. Eyes hyaline, indistinct. Mandibles very long and stout, 

 broad at base, the left with two angular teeth at apex, the right with two 

 broad angular teeth in the basal half. Labrum large, rounded in front, bearing 



