TERMITES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN REGION. 
(J. R. Chisholm, soldiers and workers) ; Cordonvale (F. H. Taylor) ; 
ownsville (G.F.H., all castes) ; ? Banks Island, Torres Strait (B. A. 
Lnscoinbe, iinagos). 
Ltioloijy.- 1 he soldiers in two colonies (without imagos) from 
coastal sand-dunes near Townsville have antennae of 16, 17 or IS 
joints, and are generally smaller than the co-types or any other 
series that can, by their associated imagos, be definitely referred to 
this species. Both colonies were found on the steins of dead 
herbaceous plants which had been destroyed under cover of a pro- 
tective sheathing formed of particles of sand cemented together. 
The Banks Island specimens (four imagos, with ocelli) differ from 
others in having slightly larger eyes anil 17-jointed antennae, the 
latter wfith the 3rd joint shortest of all and the 4th larger than 5th. 
rile colonies from Rollingstone and Torrens Cheek were found in the 
interior of small standing stunpis and under the clayey jirotective 
sheathing built around them by the termites. Other colonies, com- 
prising soldiers and workers only, were found in the vicinity of 
Townsville under logs or stones and in the abandoned nests of 
Hmnitermes ivilsoni Hill. Numerous imagos were captured on the 
wing in the same locality at dusk on 27th February after a heavy 
fall of rain, and on numerous occasions betw'een 7th October and 
27th February at lights in-doors. Mr. Taylor’s specimens from 
Oordonvale include soldiers and workers found in sugar-canes. In 
the original description the soldier is said to have the “ forehead 
projecting and hiding the clypeus ” ; this is obviously an error 
(see Figs. 38 and 39). 
Affinities. -The imago is very cdosely related to L. mlidus and 
were the soldiers not available for comjiarison one might now hesitate 
to regard the latter as more than a variety. 4'he differences in the 
imago are constant, though slight, and this fact, taken into con- 
sideration with the more pronouncerl difierences in the soldiers, 
appears to justify the retention of L. ralidus as a distinct species, 
differentiated in the imago by its larger size, longer wings, different 
wing micrasters, and stronger setae on thorax and abdomen. The 
soldier of L. paradoxus has a distinctly shorter and relatively wider 
head and gnla, more numerous but smaller hairs on head, thorax 
and abdomen, slightly shorter and distinctly more slender mandibles, 
sides of pronoturn more rounded, and posterior margin much more 
dee.])ly notched. 
Feucotermes clarki Hill. 
Bull. Entom. Res., Vol. xxii, No. 4, 1922. 
Plate V., fig. 171 : Plate VIII., fig. 172. 
Owing to an unfortunate error descriptions of the imago and 
worker of Hamit ermes obeimtis Silv. were substituted in the above 
