'rKRMITES FROM 'PRE AUSTRALIAN REGION. 
Measurements.- - 
Total lengtli .. .. 50 - 2 '75 
Head, long . . O.74 
wide .. ().0g 
Pronotiim, wide 0-42 
Tibia iii, long . . O.5] 
- New Britain : Pmi, near Rabaul. 
I lescribeil from a small colony, (ajni])rising 6 soldiers and about 
20 workers, found in a rotten log ((J.K.H., 1022). 
^ -Affinities. This spe.cies is easily distinguished from any New 
Huinea or Australian form, and it is quite distinct from any species 
Ironi the Oriental region known to the writer from specimens or 
in literature. 
Types (soldier and worker) in Natiotial Museum of Victoria. 
KuteRMES VANDINIENSIS, U. Sp. 
Plate I., figs. 22-26 ; Plate V., fig. 157 ; Plate VIII., fig. 158. 
Imago. 
Colour. Head dark brown, darker than pronotum ; thorax 
mummy brown, labrum buckthorn brown ; clypeus, palpi, and legs 
ochraceons tawny ; antennae a little darker ; tergites of abdomen 
mummy brown ; sternites Prout’s brown, with large mununv brown 
patches laterally. 
Head (Pig. 22). — Moderately setaceous, some of the setae very 
long ; rounded behind the eyes ; frons concave ; fontanelle small, 
inconspicuous, in line wdth the middle of the eyes ; ocelli very large 
(0‘187 long), broadly oval, near but not touching the eyes; eyes 
very large. (0’5]G x 0‘460) and prominent, finely facetted, 0'242 from 
lower margin of head ; postclypeus small, short rounded behind, the 
posterior four-fifths moderately convex, with a fewv long and 
numerous short setae, anterior one-fifth fiat ; labrum very small, 
moderately convex, widest in the middle, narrowed to the bluntly- 
pointed apex. Antennae 15-jointed, the 8rd joint as long as the 
2nd and 5th, but narrower ; 4th and 6th as wide as long, longer and 
wider than 5th ; 7th to 11th equal, longer than 6th ; 12th to 15th 
equal, longer than 7th to 11th ; 9th to l4th turbinate. 
Thorax (Fig. 25). Pronotum nearly straight in front, anterior 
margin slightly bent np and emarginate in the middle, antero- 
lateral angles roundefl to tlu' slightly emarginate posterior margin ; 
surface densely setaceous ; meso- and metanotum clothed densely 
with shoi't and a few long setae ; the posterior margin less sinuate 
than ]»ronotum. 
