TEKMITES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN REGION. 
lirown ; the whole insect glabrous ami bearing ver}' few moderately 
long fine setae ; margins of the nota with a scanty fringe of minute 
setae. 
Head. \\ idest in the midtile, slightly i-ounded on the sides, very 
broadly rounded behind, frons concave and slightly rugose, sloping 
gradually to the clypeus. Clypeus short, three-fifths the width 
of the head at its widest part ; anteclyjieus as wide as the labriim, 
truncate in front. Tjabrum markedly ct)uvex. rounded in front 
and on the sides, one-third wider than long, with five or .six moderatel} 
long slender setae. Mandibles (Fig. 2) long and stout, the left with 
two angular teeth near the apex and several smaller ones towards the 
base ; the right with a short broad tooth in the middle and another 
near the base. (Inla very narrow in the middle, Avhere it is one- 
eighth to one-iiinth as wide as the head. Fjyes hyaline, rudimentary, 
situated immediately behind the antemial fossae. Antennae (Fig. 3) 
14- to 17-jointed. generally I h-jointed ; the 1st one-third longer than 
wide at the apex, narrowed in the middle ; 2nd half as long as 1st, 
nearly as Avicle as long ; 3nl as long and wide as 2nd, narrowed 
at the base ; 4th a little narrower tluin 3id, shortest of all ; 5th a 
little longer than 4th. as wide as 3rd ; 6th and 7th as wide as, and 
a little longer than, 5th, globose ; 8th to 13th monilitorm. slightly 
turbinate ; 14th to 17th becoming narrower progressively ; 17tii 
very short. 
Thora.r. Fronotuni (Fdg. 4) a little narrower than head, anterior 
and posterior margins almost truncate, the sides rounded. 
Moderately stout, femora not markedly thickened, claws 
and tibial spurs long and slender. 8tyli present iii all (30) specimens 
examined. 
Meas^irements . — mm . 
Total length .. .. .. 12 '00 
Head to apex of mandibles, long .. .. 5 *13-5 -25 
,, to articulation of mandibles, long .. 3 -50-3 -70 
Mandibles (dissected out), long .. .. 2-00 
Head, wide .. ' .. .. .. 2-55-2‘85 
- deep .. .. .. 1-76^1 -93 
Antennae, long .. .. .. _ 2 ‘50 
ih'onotum. long . . . , l -lA-.l -90 
^vide .. .. .. .. 2 -40-2 -50 
Tibia iii, long .. .. .. p- 5 Q 
Abdomen, wide . , . , 2 ’25 
Nymfhae. 
Colour. Lniform light yellow ochre ; wing rudiments very little 
darker than remainder of insect. 
Locality.- -New Britain, Kabaul. 
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