134 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



rounded ; reniform indistinct ; subreniform distinct ; a broad, pale, tan- 

 colored line (outside of white shading of t. p. line) running parallel with 

 t. p. line. 



Secondaries bright yellow ; median band black, narrow, even, not 

 reaching inner margin, marginal band Tjroad, black with a slight yellow 

 tinge ; fringes dirty white ; abdomen ochre-yellow. 



C. eliza, $ , new var. 



Primaries very dark, powdered with black, a large egg-shaped whitish 

 dash near apex reaching costa ; another larger one, shaded somewhat with 

 dark gray, extends from the elongated U to lower margin. Whitish, 

 slightly powdered with gray at base. T. a.' line edged with an unusually 

 broad white dash reaching from costa to base of subreniform (on its inner 

 side), from which it is divided by a narrow dark line. All these white 

 dashes are very prominent and showy. Reniform not very distinct. 



Secondaries more like the typical form, with the exception of being 

 lighter and more yellowish at base ; fringes white, except at ends of veins . 



The third specimen comes nearer the typical cerogama, and is a male. 

 The primaries are strongly marked, slightly darker ; reniform distinct ; 

 subreniform met by a heavy black dash on the side towards base, running 

 along t. a. line to costa. There is the " slightly brown " of the var. 

 Bunkerii. 



Secondaries with a narrow yellow band, the black quite prominent and 

 with a faint purple hue. Fringes white tipped with black. 



The aboue specimens are in my collection. 



WHITE ANTS DESTROYING LIVING TREES AND CHANGING 

 THE EOLIAGE, IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



BY H. A. HAGEN, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



The common white ant, Termes flavipes, destroys dead wood, stumps 

 of trees and timber, just as does its nearest relative, T. hicifiigus, in 

 Europe. Of the latter species some cases are reported where living pines 

 and oaks have been destroyed in the South of France. For T. flavipes, 

 only one case is known, in which living grape vines in a hot house in 

 Salem were injured. (S. H. Scudder, Proc. Boston, N. H. S., vol. 7, 

 p. 287). Now the earth in the hot houses here in Cambridge is largely 



