TERMITES FROM THE AHSTRALTAX REOIOAR 
unknown imago of L. rufjus. The distinguishing characters of the 
soldiers are referred to under the last-mentioned species. There are 
four alate imagos in National Museum collection (collected hy 
Mr. J. A. Kershaw, Claudie River, North (|)ueenslanfl) which differ 
from L. venmlm apparently only in the size and density of the setae 
on head, thorax ami abdomen. 
Hiolofiy. ^ i his s])ecies is known otdy from a colony captured on 
4.11.14 (d.K.H.) in small underground passages in wet, black, peaty 
soil formerly covered with dense tropical jungle but at the time 
under cultivation as a banana |)lantation. 
Types (imago, soldier and worker) in the National Museum of 
Victoria. 
Teucotermes barrktti, n. sp. 
Imago. 
C losely allied to L. J'erox (Krogg.), from which species it differs 
in the following respects : Pleural sclerites lighter ; antennae, tarsi 
and femora darker ; abdomen, especially the three terminal segments, 
lightei , sternites 1 o and tergites 1 4 with apex jiale (not uniformly 
dark) ; 8th sternite in male orange yellow : eyes much larger, more 
[ironunent and nearer to lower margin of head‘(i.e., (1*08.5, as against 
0-14T 0*170) ; ocelli larger (i.e., length 0*085, as against 0*068), 
but about the same distance from eyes ; bead narrower ; fontanelle 
indistinct ; wing-stumps of mesonotum shorter (i.e., 0*41), as against 
0*50) ; prouotum with anterior margin nearly straight, without 
emaigination ((hapily notched in L. femx) : mesonotum with sides 
rounded and the posterior margin in the form of two rounded lobes ; 
metanotum rounded on sides and behind, ivithout emargination (in 
/v. feiox the sides of the. meso- and metanotum are nearly straight 
and slope to the posterior margin, which is broadly notched in the 
former and almost truncate in the latter). The antennae are muti- 
lated ; the live basal segments are like those of L. fero.r. 
MeasuremetUs.^ 
Length without wings 
ffead, to a])ex of labriim, long 
tn clypeofrontal suture, lono- 
• , ‘ ‘ ’ t) 
,, wide 
Ryes, diameter . . 
Pronotiim, long . . 
,, wi(le 
Tibia iii, long 
(hoi measuiements of Jj. Jevox see under L. occiduus.) 
iiini. 
5*00 
1*02 
0*60 
0*86 
0*255 
0*42 
0*68 
0*91 
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