TERMITES FROM THE AUSTRALIANS REGION. 
cubitus with ten or eleven branches (some of which are forke<l), the 
most distal of which join the posterior margin near the apex of the 
wing. The membrane densely covered with micrasters and bearing 
scattered minute setae. 
Legs . — Short and moderately stout ; femora with very few hairs, 
these mostly near the apex ; remainder of legs clothed similarly to 
pronotum ; apical spurs long and slender ; claws long and slender. 
Ahdo)nen. Long and narrow, clothed similarly to pronotum ; 
cerci large, basal segment as long as apical and very broad ; styli 
( 'o-typo 
X-O. Mpccinirns. 
asuremeiits . — 
mm. 
mm. 
Length with wings 
10- 00 
.. 9 -50-10 *00 
,, without wings . . 
5 ‘00 
.. 4-50-5-00 
Head, from base to apex of labrum, 
.. 1-14 
long . . 
1-00 
,, from base to clypeofrontal 
suture, long 
0-85 
.. 0-80-0-85 
,, wide 
0-85 
0-85 
Antennae, long 
1 -70 
1-70 
Pronotum, long 
0-51 
0-51-0-57 
,, wide 
0-74 
0-68-0-74 
Wings, forewings, long . . 
8-00 
7-80 
,, ,, wifle • ■ 
2-00 
1-76 
,, hindwings, long . . 
7 -50 
1 -82 
4hbia iii, long . . 
0-85 
0-85 
Soldier . 
CoJoiir.— Head orange rufous ; pronotum and legs yellow ochre ; 
mandibles dark ferruginous ; remainder of insect cream coloui. 
Head (Figs. 38, 39).- TVith a few long pale hairs ; long and 
narrow, nearly parallel on the sides to the antennal fossae ; iiearly 
straight on top (viewed in profile), the anterodorsal prominences 
very little elevated. Clypeus moderately large, half as long as wide, 
truncate in front, a dark ferruginous siiot at each end. Labrum 
lono- conical, pointed at the a]iex, where there are two long and 
sevSal short setae, ( lula long and narrow, about three-sixteenths 
as wide as head at its narrowest j)art. Mandibles of typical form. 
Antennae 17-, or rarely, 18-jointed ; the 3rd joint nearly always 
smallest of all, but sometimes larger than 4th ; 4th generally smaller 
than 5th but sometimes larger ; 5th and 6th equal or nearly equal; 
the remaining joints moniliform and increasing in length progressively 
but verv sli<ditly ; the last about as long as the penultimate a ml very 
little narrower ; other variations than those mentioned often occur. 
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