'I'ERMI'PES FROM 'niE AUSTRAIMAN REOION. 
/voca/i/y. -Northern Territory; Darwin (type locality) ami 
Koolpinyah. 
AffinUie^. -The similarity between this s])eeies and L. paradoxn.n 
has been noted elsewhere in this paper. 
liiolo!/jf. -V large colony of these termites, including many alate 
images, was taken on 7th l)ecember near the type locality from the 
interior of a hardwood verandah-post. 
Types (imago, soldier and worker) in National Museum of 
\u(‘toria. 
IjErOOTERMES OCOIOUUS, 11. Sp. 
Plate II., figs. 46 M8 ; Plate V., fig. 175 : Plate VIII., tig. 176. 
Imago. 
Coloux. -Very dark brown ; antennae, palpi and legs lighter ; 
clypeus Sudan brown ; anteclypeus hyaline ; labruni brown, like 
antennae, apex hyaline ; apical part of tibiae and tarsi cream colour ; 
wings fuscous. 
Head (Pig. 46). — Longer than wide, with scattered pale hairs. 
Pontanelle small, circular, prominent, in line with the yiosterior 
margin of the eyes. Lyes small, sub-triangular, 0’170 X 0*170. 
not projecting lieyond tlie sides of the head. Postclypeiis small, 
markedly convex, arcuate behind, slightly concave in front, with a 
distinct median suture and about twelve long setae : anteclypeus 
very short, hyaline, suffused with brown. Labrum narrow at the 
base, widening considerably at the ba,sal third and narrowed sharply 
to the trumaite apex. Antennae (Fig. 47) 15- or 16 jointed ; the 
drd joint smallest : 4th larger than 5th, ecpial to 6th, or llrd (rarely) 
larger than 4th. and 4th smallest of all. 
Thorax. Moderately setaceous, like head. Pronotum narrower 
than head, anterior margin elevated, rounded and widely emarginate 
in the middle, auterolateral angles rounded, the sides sloping to the 
emarginate posterior border, a deeji im])ression on each side of the 
median line behind the raised anterior' border. Posterior margin of 
the mesonotum more widely emarginate than the pronotum, the 
metanotum inor'e so than the mesonotum. 
Winns. Vdng stumps unepual. with setae as on pronotum ; the 
base (rf the veins distinct. Wings (Figs. 175, 176) long and slender, 
the two auterioi'most veins widely se]>arated ; the median distinct 
only at its base, with several branches beyond the middle to the 
apex and posterior border of the wing ; cubitus short, with about 
ten branches in tire forewing and about twelve in the hindwing. 
Membrane densely covered with micrasters and with scanty minute 
setae. 
