956 The Philippine Journal of Science 1921 
Of the thirty-three species of Philippine termites nine, and 
possibly one more, ** have been reported from other regions. Of 
these but one, Coptotermes formosanus Oshima, is found in For- 
mosa and Japan, and the other eight are from the East Indies and 
the Malay Archipelago. Six of these eight are found in Borneo 
and two in Celebes, showing the expected relationship of our 
fauna to that of those regions. Of these Coptotermes travians 
Haviland seems to haye the greatest range, being reported from 
Ceylon and intermediate regions. Further study, however, may 
show our species to be distinct from that of Haviland. 
The data as to interrelations of termite faunz are so fragment- 
ary at present as to make it impossible to speak with any 
surety, but we may confidently expect that further study will 
show our fauna to have a close relation, through Palawan and the 
Sulu Islands, with that of Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, and 
through the Babuyanes and Batanes with that of Formosa and 
Japan. 
It will be seen that twenty-seven of the known species have been 
recorded from Luzon and that twenty of these were described by 
Oshima. as new to science. The Luzon collections have been made 
in a very limited area within 65 kilometers of Manila, mainly in 
Laguna and Rizal Provinces (with the latter of which Manila 
should be included from the point of view of distribution), with 
some few from near the Rizal-Bulacan boundary. It might be 
expected that collections from so limited a region yielding so 
many new species would have exhausted the readily available 
new forms. On the contrary, however, collections made by Mr. 
McGregor and myself on four half-day trips over the same 
ground—that is, to Alabang, Antipolo, Balintauac, and Mon- 
talban, respectively—all type localities for many ef Oshima’s 
species—together with a few collections in and about Manila 
made by Mr. McGregor, myself, and some of my students show 
about thirty different species. Seventeen or more of these appear 
to be new to the Philippines and most, if not all, of these new to 
science. There is every reason to believe, therefore, that com- 
plete collections from the many islands of the Archipelago rang- 
ing from the Batanes in the north, which should give us an 
interesting intergradation with the Formosan fauna, to the Sulu 
Islands in the south, whose termite fauna should furnish interest- 
ing relationships with that of Borneo, Celebes, and the Malay 
* Hutermes minutus Oshima, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 12 (1917) 225. I 
have been unable to locate the description of this species, which is mention 
in the above paper without references or subgenus. 
