TERMITES EROM THE AUSTRALIAN REGION. 
Loca/i%.— New Ireland : Kaewieng (J3r. H. G. Wallace, 4.10.23). 
Described from one alate imago, four nymphs, one soldier, and 
SIX workers. .1 
Affinities. - The imago is very distinct from any hitherto described 
Australian species, and appears to have no very close ally in the 
Oriental fauna. The soldier resembles E. gracilirostris (Desn.) 
in the shape of the head, but the latter is distinguished by its larger 
size and differently coloured head. 
Types (imago, soldier, and worker) in National Museum of 
Victoria. 
hlUTERMES {?) VERNONI Hill. 
Proc. Linn. 80 c., N. 8 .W., Vol. xlvii., 1922. 
Iwo nest series of soldiers, workers, and nymphs from Papua 
are so closely related to the above species (from Townsville, N. (bieens- 
land) that it is considered advisable to withhold a description until 
imagos are available for comparison. The soldiers and workers are 
smaller than typical exanpiles from ()ueensland. In the shape 
of the head and segmentation of the antennae there is no appreciable 
difference in either soldier or worker castes, but there are marked 
differences in the nature and disposition of the hairs on head and body. 
The termitaria also have some resemblance to each other, the slight 
differences observed being possibly due to local couflitions. 
Locality. - Papwd : Fairfax Plantation (B. F. Hill) ; Yule Island 
(G.F.H., July, 1922). 
Migrooerotermes riroi (Desneux). 
Ann. Mns. Nat. Hungarici., Vol. iii., 1905. Silvestri, Fauna Siid-west 
Australiens, 1909. Holmgren, Neu-Guinea Termiten, 1911. 
Plate L, fig. 29 : Plate V.. fig. 161 ; Plate Vlll., fig. 162. 
The following colonies appear to be referable to this species, the 
type locality of which is German New Guinea (1) Imagos (Fig. 29) 
and two forms of workers from Fairfax Plantation, neai' Port 
Moresby, Papua (B. F. Hill, 1920), from a woody termitarium on 
tree-trunk near ground. (2) Several nest series of soldiers and 
w'orkers (two forms) from blackish, woody termitaria on trunks of 
coconut palms, Ethel River (Mekeo District) and Kaile (30 miles 
south-east from Moresby), Papua (G.F.H., July, 1922). (3) Imagos 
(Figs. 161 and 162), one soldier and many workers, from termi- 
tarium on tree-trunk. Collingwood Bay, Papua (Dr. G. H. Vernon. 
1921). The imagos in (1) and (3) agree with each other in all details ; 
imagos and workers from the latter colony have been examined by 
Professor Holmgren, who considers them to be correctly referred 
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