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confused. It is separable from both by the differences of the right imago mandible, 

 and from F. contractus by the different pilosity of the vertex. The more rounded 

 posterior lobe of the soldier head distinguishes F. coatoni from F. contractus, and the 

 points of the vestigial soldier mandibles are often though not always more pronoun- 

 ced. The distinguishing features of F. mallyi are discussed under that species. 



Holotype $ winged imago, allotype o, Republic of South Africa : Transvaal, 

 Sibasa, 24.x. 1959 (W. G. H. Coaton), Coll. No. T.M. 6716, N.C.I., Pretoria. 



Paratypes, soldiers and workers, same data as holotype, in N.C.I. , Pretoria and 

 B.M.(N.H.). 



Other paratype material. Southern Rhodesia : Bulawayo, 13.V.1915 {Arnold), 

 N.C.I., Pretoria. 



Republic of South Africa : Transvaal ; Bronkorstspruit, 6- 12. v. 1938, 

 23-24. ix. 1957, 26.vii.1960, 10 vials, Warmbad, 12. iv. 1938, 25. ix. 1957, 3 vials, 

 Groblersdahl, 21. ii. 1939, 26. ix. 1957, 2 vials, Pietersburg, 25. v. 1939, 5.x. 1960, 

 Witbank, 30.viii.i959, Schweizer Reneke, 3.x. 1956, 2 vials, N.C.I. , Pretoria, 

 Potgietersrus, 26. ix. 1957, 2 vials, Pretoria, 23-25. ix. 1957, 3.x. i960, 5 vials, Sibasa, 

 8.VU.1960, 3 vials, Waterberg, 3.x. i960, 2 vials, Rustenburg, 1 & 26.ix.1961, 2 vials, 

 Marico, i.ix.1961 (IT. G. H. Coaton) ; Pretoria, 12.xi.1957, Sibasa, 30.xii.1959, 

 Waterberg, 6.1.1960, Rustenburg, 6 8.1.1960 (P. C. Joubert) ; Sibasa, 15.x. i960, 

 2 vials, Pietersberg, 2.viii.i96i (/. L. Sheasby); Soutpansberg, 24. iv. 1958 (/. H. 

 Grobler) ; Cape Province ; Vryburg, 25.ii.1961, Mafeking, 26. ii. 1962, X.C.I., Pretoria 

 (W. G. H. Coaton) ; Kimberly, 7.XLI960 (P. C. Joubert) ; Natal ; Iintonjaneni, 

 13. i. 1962, 2 vials (/. L. Sheasby). 



A total of 56 nest series of this species were examined, and material is in the 

 British Museum (Natural History) unless otherwise stated. 



F. coatoni has been recorded as inhabiting parts of the mounds of various other 

 genera. It appears to be confined to the relatively drier woodlands and wooded 

 steppes included in vegetation type 20 of Keay ei al. (1959), occurring in Southern 

 Rhodesia and the northern parts of South Africa. Several localities in Cape Province 

 are beyond the mapped limit of type 20 vegetation. Coaton (1962) considers that 

 the species does not occur west of Longitude 24°E., and it therefore seems probable 

 that F. coatoni does not extend far into the even drier Acacia-Commiphora wooded 

 steppe of type 25. These localities are thus likely to be in the transition zone, or 

 even outliers of type 20 too small to be recorded on the map. 



Fulleritermes contractus (Sjostedt) 

 (Text-figs, no, in, 115, 135-139, 172-174, 220 ; Map 15) 



Eutermes contractus Sjostedt, 1913a : 384. Type locality : Congo, Katanga, Welgelegen. 

 Coarctatotermes contractus (Sjostedt) Fuller, 1922 : 117. [unjustified emendation of generic 



name Coarctotermes Holmgren]. 

 Coarctotermes contractus (Sjostedt) ; Sjostedt, 1926 : 356. 



Coarctotermes brunneus Noirot, 1955 : 150. Type locality : Angola, Humpata, Leba. syn. n. 

 Coarctotermes brunneus Noirot ; Sands, 1957 : x 4- 

 Fulleritermes contractus (Sjostedt) Coaton, 1962 : 152. 

 Fulleritermes brunneus (Noirot) Coaton, 1962 : 153. 



