TERMITES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN REGHON. PART I. 
By Gerald F. Hill, Entomologist, National Museum, Melbourne. 
(Plates 1. IX.) 
A. — liitroduction 
IP — Tlie Termite Fauna of New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland, New 
Hebrides, and Solomon Islands 
0. A Revision of the Australian Leucotermes, Microeerotermes and 
M irofermes . . 
-INTRODUCTION. 
The termites referred to in tliis paper comprise ]iart of a collec- 
tion of about 1,000 nest series collected by the author in the Xorthern 
Territory of Australia during the years 1912 17, in North Queensland 
during 1919-23, and in New Britain and Papua during 1922, iu 
addition to about 250 series collected by Mr. J. Clark in \ATstern 
Australia, and about 50 series collected by several other cor- 
respondents in various localities. Small collections from New 
Britain, New Ireland, and Solomon Islands, which have been 
presented to the National Museum recently by Drs. C. M. Heydoip 
H. (1. Wallace, and Mr. W. \V. Froggatt, as well as loan collections 
from the museums of South Australia, Queensland, and Western 
Australia, and Mr. L. J. Newman, (fovernment Entomologist, 
AVestern Australia, have been dealt vith also. 
Thirty-two species, representing seven genera, are proposed as 
new, and of the former thirteen species, re[)i'esenting five genera, are 
from New Cuinea, Bismarck Archijielago, and adjacent groujis of 
islands. J)escri])tions are given also of the imago of one species 
from New Cuinea and seven species from Australia, which have been 
known hitherto only in the sterile castes. 
The nomenclature used in describing wing veins is that of 
Holmgren (1909, pp. 122-128), while the method of recording 
measurements and colours is the same as in my earlier papers. 
For the minute star and scale like structures found on the wiims 
of most termites 1 have employed the term micraster (Tilly ard, 1919) 
FooixoTK. — While the above paper was in eoiirBe of piiljlicatiou Dr. T. U. .Snyder’s pajier on '■ New 
Tennites from the Soiomnn islands and Santa Cruz Arehi)ieia<;o ” (.lourn. Wash. Aoad. So. xv. (17 and 
l!l) iSidij) name to hand. Tliis eontains de.scription.s of specier from the former iocaiity wlncli appear 
to l)e very eloseiy allied to, if not iiiontical with, certain s|iecies now being devit with. It is proposed 
to publish some rcvisional notes, if foiimi necessary, after a comparison of the type series has been 
made, 
