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building form, probably Termes (Macrotermes) copelandi 
Oshima or philippinensis Oshima, and a paper by Brown (1918)* 
on the fungi cultivated by the mound-building termites identi- 
fied by Oshima” as Termes (Macrotermes) philippinensis 
Oshima. 
To date there have been reported from the Philippine Islands 
thirty-three species of termites; thirty by Oshima and one each 
by Hagen, Haviland, and Holmgren. Oshima’s first Philippine 
material was collected by Prof. C. F. Baker, dean of the College 
of Agriculture, University of the Philippines, at Los Bafios, 
where the College is located. That for his last three papers was 
collected by Mr. R. C. McGregor, associate editor of the Phil- 
ippine Journal of Science, at present acting director of the 
Bureau of Science. Mr. McGregor has shown the greatest 
interest in my work as also in the previous termite work. He 
has been an invaluable aid both by personal collecting and by 
helping me to make collections as well as by his unflagging 
interest and enthusiasm. I wish to take this opportunity of 
expressing my appreciation for what he has done and, I feel 
certain, will continue to do to aid in the study of our termite 
fauna. 
A list of the species reported from the Philippines forms a 
part of this paper. I do not feel ready to give the species the 
names which recent changes in the knowedge of generic types 
and diagnoses and a fuller comparative knowledge of our ter- 
mite fauna may well require. I have therefore given them the 
scientific names under which they were reported from the 
Islands. The names and date or dates in parentheses refer to 
the reporter and date when reported. oy 
Following each species the following data are given: 1, origi- 
nal locality; 2, distribution within the Archipelago and col- 
lectors; 3, distribution outside the Archipelago; 4, habitat notes ; 
5, imago, whether known or unknown. 
Mr. Baker’s material and that of Mr. McGregor, with the 
exception of one collection from Panay, was all collected within 
a radius of 65 kilometers of Manila. Therefore, collections 
having been made in but two islands, and in very limited regions 
of each, the distribution data will have but little faunistic value. 
It is hoped, however, that our future collecting may be suf- 
ficiently thorough to allow for the ultimate drawing of conclu- 
* Brown, Philip. Journ. Sci. § C 13 (1918) 223-231. 
" Oshima, Philip. Journ. Sci. 17 (1920) 489-512. 
