TEKMITES KKOM TEE AU.STKALIAN KE(E()E. 
Locality.- -Bougainville Island (Solomon (Iroup) : Yandini ; New 
Britain : Rabaul ; New Ireland : Kaewieng ; New Hebrides (from 
\V. W. Froggatt’s collection). 
Described frotn (1) three alate imagos, nmneroiis soldiers, and 
live workers collected at Yandini (type locality) during December, 
1923, by Dr. (I. M. Heydon, from blackish, rather brittle termitarium 
on trunk of tree ; (2) numerous soldiers and workers from a similar 
nest to aboye, Rabaul, (I.F.H., 2.(i.22 ; (3) soldiers and workers 
from covered-ways on tree truidc in dense jungle, Habaul, (i.F.H., 
2.6.22 ; (4) soldiers and workers from coyered-ways on tree trunk, 
Kaewieng, Dr. H. (1. Wallace, 2.12.23. Hdie New Britain, New 
Ireland, arid New Hebrides series differ from tlie type series in 
having workers with lightei' brown heads and soldiers with the lighter 
area at the back of the head much more conspicuous. 
Ajfin/ifiet!. —'rids sjiccies is allied to L. priibce}>s (Desn.), from 
whicli it is easily distinguished by the size of the imagos and soldiers. 
It is allied to several undescribed sjiecies from Australia. E. novarum 
hebridarimi Flolmgr. is evidently a very distinct species. 
'L’ypes (imago, soldier, and worker) in National Museum of 
Victoria. 
IdUTERMES KAEWIENCIENSIS, 11. Sp. 
IMate I., hgs. 27, 28 ; Plate V., fig. 159 ; Plate VI 1 1., fig. 160. 
Imago. 
Colour.- -Hiead very dark brown, nearly black ; pronotum, 
antennae, wing-stumps, and tergites of abdomen somewhat lighter ; 
palpi, legs, wings, meso- and metanotum mummy brown ; clypeus 
and labrurn yellow ochre ; anteclypeus hyaline. 
Head (Fig. 27). — Very hairy, hemis])herical behind the eyes, 
sloping in sharply from tlie anterior margin of eyes to the clypeus. 
Fontanelle indistinct. Postclypeus short, one-fourth as long as 
wide, convex, roundetl behind, truncate in front, clothed with 
numerous long reddish setae ; anteclypeus longer than postclypeus, 
anterior margin produced in the middle. Labruni short and broad, 
densely setaceous. Fyes large (0*289 diam.), circular, prominent, 
sejiarated from lower margin of head by a space erpial to that separat- 
ing the ocelli from the eyes. Ocelli large, broadly oval. Antennae 
13-jointed, the 1st joint twice as long as wide, cylindrical ; 2nd 
less than half as long as 1st, narrow ; 3rd as long as 2nd, narrowest 
of all ; 4th as long as 2nd and 3rd, globose ; 4th to 13th lengthening 
progressively. 
Thorax. -Bronotum concave and elevated in front, antero- 
lateral angles rounded, sides narrowed sharply to the sinuate posterior 
margin ; a deep yellowish linear depression half as long as the 
