INTESTINAL PROTOZOA OF TERMITES. 



2OI 



TABLE III. 



SHOWING THE RESULTS OF ATTEMPTS TO PROLONG THE LIVES OF INCUBATED 



AND DEFALCATED TERMITES BY FEEDING THEM VARIOUS SUBSTANCES. 



27 EXPERIMENTS SELECTED AT RANDOM FROM A SERIES OF 100. 



luiniu- feeding experiments, and from ten to more than a th<iu>.uid 

 u-nnit. e placed in each jar. It does not seem feasible or 



necessary to state when each of the one hundn-d j.irs \\viv col- 

 and incubated and just what happened to each of them, 

 tin- results of each experiment are -iniilar, as Table III. 



-c and peptone. 



s Intestinal contents of wood-boring insect la 

 1 Xo evident signs of death at this time. 

 4 Death resulted in 10-20 days later. 

 * Fungus digested cellulose. 



(To be continued) 



