TERMITES FROM THE AUSTRALIAK REHIOX. 
Calotermes (Neotermes) PAPUA Desiieux. 
Ann. Mus. Xat. Hungarici, Vol. iii, 1905. Holmgren, Xeu-Huinea 
Terniiten, 1911. 
Plate figs. 1—4- ; Plate V., fig. 150. 
Imago. 
Head, anterior tliree-fonrths of pronotum and the 
abdomen auburn ; posterior fourth of pronotum and ajiical margin 
of abdominal tergites 2-6 darker ; meso- and metanotum, first 
abdominal tergite, tibiae, tarsi and sternites dark brown ; remainder 
of ventral surface and wings Brussels brown ; the whole insect 
glabrous and sparsely clothed with fine, pale-coloured setae. 
Head (Big. 1). Twice as long as wide, front slightly concave 
and rugose, with very scanty moderately long pale setae. Eyes 
large, nearly circular (0'513 x 9 •570), prominent and coarsely 
facetted, separated from the lower (lateral) margin of the head 
by a space equal to half their height, Ocelli large, broadly oval, 
contiguous to the eyes. Postchqieus short, three times wider than 
long, with four moderately long and stout reddish setae ; the arti- 
culation of the mandibles forming a dark reddish-brown s])ot at 
either end. Anteclypeus four times wider than long, anterior margin 
truncate, yellow ochre in colour. Labrum brown, narrow at the 
base, rounded on the sides to the truncate apex, one-third wider 
than long,^ with scanty small pale setae. Antennae 17- or 18-jointed, 
the 1st joint short and broad, narrowed in the middle ; 2nd half as 
long as 1st, its widest part (aj>ex) as wide as narrowest part of 1st ; 
3rd about as long as 2nd, but narrower at the base and wider at the 
apex ; 4th nearly as wide as the 3rd. but much shorter, globose ; 
5th to 15th increasing in length progressively ; 16th and 17th equal 
in length to 15th, but narrower ; 18th markedly shorter and 
narrower than 17th, narrorvest of all ; the 1st and 2nd joints with 
only minute hairs ; tlie 3rd to 8th with a single row of large hairs 
near the apex. 
T/iora, r.—Pronotum not markedly arched transversely, the 
margins produced, anterior margin concave, sides slightly rounded, 
antero- and postero-lateral angles rounded, posterior margin slightly 
emarginate in the middle, the entire surface uniformly and very 
scantily clothed with setae similar to those on head. Meso- and 
metanotum with posterior margin as in pronotum. Stumps of the 
forewnigs large, showing the bases of the veins very distinctly, 
covering two-thirds of the stumps of the hindwings ; setae as on 
pronotum , stumps of the hindwings small and reaching only half- 
way down the metanotum. 
