TEB-MITES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN REGION. 
Fronotum . — Of typical form, anterior half narrowed and bent 
np sharply ; sides sloping abruptly to the rounded and slightly 
notched posterior margin ; entire margin fringed with scanty 
reddish setae. 
Legs. -Moderately long and slender ; sparsely setaceous. 
Abdomen.- -Wide and bluntly rounded at apex ; the tergites with 
scattered, moderately long setae. 
M easurements. — mm. 
Total length . . . . . . . . . . 2’56 
Head, from base to apex of rostrum, long . . . . 1 '02 
,, wide . . . . . . . . . . 0’62 
Pronotum, long , . . . . . . . O'll 
,, wide . . . . . . . . 0‘34 
Tibia iii, long . . . . . . . . 0‘39 
Abdomen, wide . . . . . . , . . . 0’80 
Worker. 
Colour.- -Dorsal surface of head and labruni burnt ochre, sides 
of head and frontal suture whitish ; articulation of mandibles 
hazel. 
Head. Nearly as wide as long, widest across the middle ; clypeo- 
frontal suture only slightly concave ; cly])eus short, one-fifth as 
long as wide, not markedly convex, with scattered setae as on head ; 
anteclypeus small, produced in the middle ; labrum large, convex, 
rounded on the sides and in front. Antennae 12-jointed, the 1st 
joint long, cylindrical, one-third longer than 2nd ; 2nd slightly 
narrowed at the base ; 3rd narrowest of all, as long as 4th ; 4th 
wider and moi'e globose than 3rd ; 5th to 11th increasing in length 
progressively ; T2th as long as lOtli, narrower than 11th. 
Fronotum.^ HuvaW, saddle-shaped, half as wide 
margins with scanty setae as on head. 
Leg,s. -Short, moderately stout, and setaceous. 
as head, the 
Abdomen . — Short and wide, bluntly rounded at the 
apex ; tergites 
and sternites moderately setaceous. 
Measurements.- - 
mm. 
'hotal length 
.. 3-00 
Head, from base to apex of labrum, long 
.. 0-85 
,, from base to clypeofrontal suture, long 
.. 0-62 
,, wide 
.. 0-80 
Ih'onotum, long 
.. 0-17 
,, wide 
.. 0-40 
Antennae, long . . 
.. 0-85 
Tibia iii, long 
.. 0-40 
Abdomen, wide . , 
.. 1-14 
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