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to belong to Eutermes. Since no other species of this genus was 

 ever seen by me in southwestern Texas, I infer that these winged 

 specimens belong to Eutermes nigriceps. They agree well 

 with Hagen's description of Tcrmcs (Eutermes} fumosus 

 from Vera Cruz, Mexico (Linn. Ent., 14, p. 123), of which Dr. 

 Hagen himself thinks that it may be the winged form of Halde- 

 man's species. 



5. Calotermes ?narginicollis Latreille. A few winged spec 

 imens of this common Mexican species were attracted by light 

 in houses at San Diego after the rain on May 21, and some other 

 individuals deprived of wings were found running about during 

 subsequent days. 



In addition to these Texan species, Mr. Schwarz exhibited 

 and commented upon the following Termites : i . Substitute 

 queens of Termes flavipes with very short wing-pads found by 



r. Hubbard at Enterprise, Florida. 2. Workers of Termopsis 

 angusticollis Walk., from Lake Tahoe, Cal. 3. An undescribed 

 Termitid genus from Haw Creek, Fla., of which workers, 

 soldiers, and young imagos were found, in June, in a dead palmetto 

 tree. The genus is closely allied to Termopsis, but the antennae 

 of the imagos are only i6-jointed and the wing venation very 

 fine. The soldiers are remarkable from the form of the head, 

 which is of comparatively small size but vertical anteriorly, the 

 vertical surface being excavated and acutely margined. 



This paper was discussed by Messrs. Benton, Ashmead, and 

 Schwarz. 



Mr. Benton, referring to the rarity of queens in Termes, and 

 the argument that Mr. Schwarz had advanced that the frequent 

 moving of the colonies would necessitate such rarity, said that 

 the case might be similar to that which holds with the honey 

 bee and with Melipona and Trigona, where the stimulating food 

 is withheld so as to limit development of eggs previous to swarm 

 ing, in order to enable the queen to fly. Mr. Schwarz, however, 

 said that it was utterly impossible that the queens of Termites 

 could move. Mr. Ashmead, regarding the introduction of 

 Termes lucifugus from Europe to America, or vice versa, 

 mentioned Mr. Schwarz's argument that the presence or absence 

 of inquilines might indicate the country of its origin, but stated 

 that with inquilines it must be somewhat as with parasites, and 



