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Lectotype : Congo : Katanga, Welgelegen, 14.vi.1912 (/. Bequaert), lectot}-pe 

 queen, paralectotype soldiers and workers, Mus. Ter\'uren. Other paralectotype 

 soldiers, type colony, A.M.N.H. and B.M.(N.H.). 



Type Material. Angola : Humpata, Leba, 17. ix. 1949 (A. de Barros Machado), 

 paratype soldier, type colony, F. brunneus (Noirot), A.M.N.H. 



Other Material. Congo : Leopoldville, Kitona, g.viii.ig5g (J. Rttelle), N.C.I., 

 Pretoria ; Katanga, Keyberg, ii° 47' S., 27 ° 25' E., 19-25. iv.1948, 2 vials (A. E. 

 Emerson), A.M.N.H. 



Angola : Munhango, 24.x. 1927 (M. Burr). 



Northern Rhodesia : Abercorn, iii.1947 (P. E. Glover) ; Lusaka, xi.1963 (E. N. 

 Cooling) . 



Southern Rhodesia : Salisbury, 1911 (G. A. K. Marshall). The last 4 nest 

 series in British Museum (Natural History). 9 nest series were examined. 



The habits of this species seem to be similar to those of F. tenebricus in the northern 

 savannahs, sharing the mounds of other species and occasionally constructing its 

 own small mound, or carton nest around a branch stump on a tree. It occurs in 

 the savannah zones south of the Congo forest block, comprising vegetation types 

 8, 16, 18, and 19 of Keay et al. (1959), thus having a somewhat more restricted 

 distribution than its northern congener. 



Fulleritermes mallyi (Fuller) 

 (Text-figs. 106, 107, 116, 140-145, 175-177, 221, 222 ; Map 16) 



Tennirostrilermes mallyi Fuller, 1922 : 115. Type locality : Republic 01 South Africa, 



Cape Province, Malmesbury. 

 Entermes mallyi (Puller) Sjdstedt, 1926 : 310. 

 Coarctotermes niallvi (Puller) Snyder, 1949 : 311. 

 l-'itlleritermes mallyi (Puller) Coaton, 1962 : 152. 



The following additions to Puller's descriptions are necessary : 



Imago. Posterior margin of head almost semi-circular behind eyes ; eyes small relative to 

 head width, W/E index 3-8-4-4, moderately prominent in proportion to own diameter ; ocelli 

 small, separated from eyes by slightly more than to nearly twice own least diameter ; post- 

 clypeus very strongly inflated, width 1-7-1-8 times length, anterior margin almost straight, 

 posterior regularly convex ; posterior cutting edge of first marginal tooth of right mandible 

 exposed beyond second, longer than that of second marginal. 

 Cerci of $ shorter than width across base, mamilliform. 



Pilosity of vertex densely scattered rather long yellow bristle-like setae of varying length, rest 

 of body with yellow hair- and bristle-like setae. Other characteristics described in generic 

 diagnosis. 



Measurements (24 specimens from 7 localities) in millimetres. 



Range Mean 



Head width across eyes 1 -37-1 -43 . . 1 -40 



Greatest diameter of eye 0-31-0-36 . . °34 



Ocellus . . . 009-010 x 010-016 . . 0-09 x 013 



Ocellus to eye . . 010-019 • • 016 



