III. 
ANNALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNG ARICI. 
1905. 
ISOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA COLLECTED BY L. BIRO. 
Described by J. Desneux. 
(With 5 text figures.) 
Di*. G. Horváth, the Director of the Zoological Department of the 
Hungarian National Museum has been kind enough to send me for exa¬ 
mination his material of Termites, including the species collected by 
Mr. L. Biró in New Guinea. 
The collection I have studied is not very important, comprising 
about ten species, and does not present any real local character, similar 
forms being found in Australia and in the Malay Archipelago. I must, 
however, mention the presence of one interesting form, viz. T. grallator 
n. sp., from the Graget Island, representing a parallel type to the group 
of the long-legged nasute-species of the Indo-malayan fauna ( T mono¬ 
ceros Kön. etc.) : like the latter, this species travels in the daytime, and 
possesses long legs and antennse. It is, however, well specialized. 
Mr. Biró has made interesting observations upon several species, 
which are included in the following report. 
Calotermes Papua n. sp. 
Soldier. Length (with mandibles) about 9 mm. Head yellowish- 
brown, subrectangular, 3 mm. long (without mandibles), 2‘3 mm. broad. 
Thorax and abdomen greyish. Eyes represented by pale spots. Antennæ 
of 14 to 15 segments, the 3rd longer than the 2nd, the 4th shorter 
than the 3rd. Labrum short, broad, rounded. Mandibles strong, slightly 
curved; a little longer than half the head, black with reddish-brown 
base ; the right with a large, subtriangular tooth before the middle, and 
one also at the base ; the left with several small ones, the apical of 
which is larger. The base of the left mandible is broadened in an obtuse 
tooth. Pronotum nearly as broad as the head or a little broader, the 
anterior border concave, the lateral margins rounded. Legs short, the 
hind ones but little exceeding the abdomen. Cerci small, conical. Styli 
rather large. 
New Guinea: Simbang (Huon Golf), 6. IX. 1898. 
