TERMITES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN REGION 
Measurements . — 
Total length 
Head, from posterior margin to apex of labrum, long 
,, to clypeofrontal suture, long 
wide 
Antennae, long . . 
Pronotum, long 
wide 
Tibia iii, long 
mm. 
4-50 
1 -48 
1 -08 
1 -27 
1-25 
0-3b 
0-74 
0-96 
Locality . — Solomon Islands : Banaka. 
Described from a small colony of workers and soldiers collected 
by Mr. W. W. Froggatt. 
Tv])es (soldier and worker) in National Museum of Victoria. 
Rhinotermes niMORPHUs Desueux. 
Aim. Mus. Nat. Hungarici, Vol. iii, 1905. Holmgren, 
Neu-duinea Termiten, 1911. 
Locality.- (lerman New Ouinea : Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen. 
Rhinotermes himorphus sub-s]). robastior (Silvestri). 
Die Fauna Sud-west Australiens, Isoptera, ii, 17, 1909. 
Two soldiers and several workers from New Ireland (Kaewieng, 
Dr. H. (4. Wallace) agree with the description of this species, the 
type locality of which is Bismarck Archipelago (Ralum Louson). 
Rhinotermes celerensis Holmgren. 
Neu-duinea Termiten. 1911 ; Kungl. sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. Bd. 46, 
No. 6, 1911. 
Locality.- -derman New (luinea ; Bumatra ; Celebes. 
Rhinotermes translucens Haviland. 
Jr. IJnn. Boc., Vol. xxvi., 169, 1898. Holmgren, Kungl. sv. Vet. 
Akad. Handl. Bd. 48, No. 6, 1911 ; Neu-duinea Termiten, 1911. 
CorYdR//.-- derman New duinea ; Borneo. 
Rhinotermes umbraticus, n. sp. 
Plate I., figs. 17, 18. 
King. 
do/our. Antique brown to Budan brown; anterior margin 
of frons and apice of wing-stunips argus brown ; under surface and 
legs antique brown ; tarsi Budan brown. 
r 20 I 
