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fERMES. 
Of the exotic Termites tiie most remarkable 
5eeins to be the Termes bellicosns, whose history is 
so amply described by Mr. Smeathmaii in the 
Philosophical Transactions. 
“ Ot' a great many curious parts of the creation 
I met with on my travels in that almost unknown 
district of Africa called Guinea, the Termites, 
which by most travellers have been called White 
Ants, seemed to me on many accounts most 
worthy of that exact and minute attention which 
I have bestowed upon them. 
“ The amazingly great and sudden mischief 
they frequently do to the property of people in 
tropical climates, makes them well known and 
greatly feared by the inhabitants. 
“ The size and figure of their buildings have 
attracted the notice of many travellers, and yet 
the world has not hitherto been furnished with a 
tolerable description of them, though tlieir con- 
trivance and execution scarce fall short of human 
ingenuity and prudence; but when we come to 
consider the wonderful oeconomy of these insects, 
with the good order of their subterraneous cities, 
they will appear foremost on the list of the won- 
ders of the creation, us most closely imitating 
mankind in provident industry and regular go- 
vernment. 
“ The Termites are represented by Linna?us as 
the greatest plagues of both Indies, and are in- 
these; being, according to his own obsenation, ita Termiti 
pulsatorio sitnilis, ut demptis alis tix dijfirat facie; an sexu solo? 
