TERMITES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN REGION. 
of the branches, only the bark remaining undamaged. In all the 
colonies workers and imagos were very numerous, outnumbering the 
soldiers by several hundreds to one. Surface terrnitaria appear to 
be rarely constructed by this species, none having been found in the 
Townsville Distric.t, where the species is commonly met with. The 
specimens collectefl at Pentlaml were from a nest described as “ a 
small, pointed mound, 6 inches high by 5 inches across the base, 
found in well-drained open forest country.” Two colonies were 
found near Townsville in the lower part of small terrnitaria of 
Ilmnitermes ivilsoni Hill. In both instances a portion of the earthy 
material forming the original nest had been removed and replaced 
hj' A mass of wooily material in which the cells were unusually 
large foi such a small sjiecies, i.e., from T?; to 2 inches across by 
I inch high. Hie (lueeii occupied a somewhat smaller cell surrounded 
by large ones occujiied by soldiers, workers and many nymjihs. The 
latter show the hrst evidence of the developing wing-buds late in 
June or early in July. i 
type imago, with associated soldiers and workers, in the National 
Museum of Victoria. 
Mi(!ROCEROTERMES TURNER ( Kroggatt). 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. xxii, 1897. Mjoberg Arkiv. for 
Zoologi. Vol. xii, No. 15, 1920. 
A small colony of soldiers and workers taken under a log in the 
Blackall Ranges, South (Queensland (F. F. AVilson, October, 1920). 
with Lemotermes sp. (soldiers and workers), agree with co-types 
(from Mackay, (Queensland) and with specimens from the collections 
of Prof IJohngren and Dr. Mjoberg, from New South AVales and 
(Queensland respectively. 
Miorocerotermes distinctus iSilvestri. 
Die Fauna Sudwest-Australiens. Bd. ii. Lief. 17, 1909. Mjdberg, 
Arkiv. for Zoologi. Vol. xii, No. 15, 1920. 
Plate II., figs. 64 66 ; Plate V., fig. 181 ; Plate VIII., fig. 182. 
I.UAGO. 
Colou,r. -\erj dark brown, head and pronotum darkest; post- 
clypeus and labrum somewhat lighter than abdomen ; anteclypeus 
yellow^; palpi and legs dark, darker than antennae : under surface 
dark brown ; apical margin of tergites and sternites and the tarsi 
testaceous. The whole insect rather densely clothed with pale setae. 
Head (Fig. 64).- -Large, broadly rounded behind, flat on summit 
Irons concave. Postclypeus large, about half as long as wide.’ 
markedly convex, rounded behind, with a distinct suture, anterior 
margin broadly tiuncate, with scattered setae ; anteclypeus verv 
