'PERMITES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN REGION. 
short, feeble fUglit and iniinediately shed the wings ; tlie former then 
followed the latter for varying periods up to fifteen minutes, when 
each pair secreted themselves under ])ieces of wood or bark oi in 
tussocks of grass. 
Types (imago, soldier and worker) in the National Museum of 
Victoria. 
Migrooerotermes neavmani, n. sp. 
Plate 111., figs. 82-84 ; Plate VI., fig. 190 ; Plate IX., fig. 191. 
Imago. 
(7o/oMr.— Plead, thorax and abdomen argus brown ; middle of 
thoracic nota and fifth to eighth abdominal tergites paler , post- 
clypeiis much lighter than head, clay colour , iabrum, antennae, 
legs, pleura and sternites of abdomen a little ]ialer than postcly])eus ; 
wings light fuscous. 
In gross a])})earance very like M. leai, n. sp., but distinctly 
smalleinind easily differentiated by the following characters Head 
not quite so reddish and more hairy ; eyes a little larger ; antennae, 
mouth-parts, legs and under surface (Ustinctly ])aler ; pronotiim 
lighter in colour, smaller and differently shaped ; wings about the 
same length but distinctly wider and rather darker ; wing niicrasters 
different' (cf. figs. 187 and 191). Antennae (Fig. 82) IP-jointed ; 
1st joint twice as long as wide ; 2nd large, as long as 1st is \yide ; 
:ird very short and narrow ; 4th short and wide, as wide as 2nd ; 
5th markedly larger than 4th, as wide as, but nioie (|uadiate than, 
6th. Pronotiun (Fig. 83) nearly straight in front, with slight 
eniargination in middle, anterior margin elevated, anterolateral 
anoles and sides rounded, posterior margin sinuate, the entire 
surface covered with long and slmrt setae. ^ Posterior margin of 
meso- and metanotuni markedly sinuate. Mings (higs. 190, 191) 
short and wide, the radius, radial sector and extreme proximal end of 
median vein and the hrst five or six branches of the cubitus dark , 
the radial sector with numerous moderately long setae along its 
entire length ; the median vein branched from the radial sector well 
beyond the suture in the hindwing ; membrane with scattered setae 
and densely covered with very distinct niicrasters. 
MeasurenwHis . — 
Length ivith wings . . • • 
,, without w'ings . . . • ^ 
Head, from base to apex of Iabrum, long. . 
from base to clypeofrontal suture, 
long . . 
,, wide 
Eyes, diameter, laterally 
„ vertically 
mm. 
7-25 ; 9 8-00 
3-87 ; 9 4-10 
0-85 
0-51 
0-74 
0-238 
0-221 
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