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taprohanes) in Rangoon. In the Zoology of the No vara Expedi- 

 tion, Brauer has described two species from the ISTicobar Islands; 

 while Forbes* noticed them on the Cocos Keeling Islands, where 

 he says they were introduced some years before; this is the only 

 instance in which I have been al^le to find them recorded from a 

 coral island. 



Extending down into the Australian region, there is no record 

 of any species from the mainland of New Guinea, though I have 

 made special enquiries. D'Albertisf mentions them twice on 

 Yule Island, no great distance from the mainland, and it is most 

 likely that the}' occur inland; for at the present time most of the 

 known portions of New Guinea are either river delta country or 

 mountain ranges, neither of which is suitable for their hp.bitations. 



Three species are known from New Zealand, four from Tas- 

 mania, and six from Australia. 



I have been unable to come across any reference to Termites 

 being found in any of the Pacific Islands, but within this last 

 month I have received some from the New Hebrides. They 

 belong to a ver}^ large species and were sent from Aneityum in a 

 bottle full of insects by the Rev. J. H. Lawrie to the Techno- 

 logical Museum. In the Hawaiian Islands Blackburn | found 

 two species very plentiful, both of which are American forms and 

 may possibly have been introduced. 



The home of the white ant, however, appears to be South 

 America, and its headquarters Brazil; from which country alone 

 tw^enty-seven species are known. Many of these were collected 

 by Bates § on the Amazons, who recorded the habits of 

 several species; while Fritz Muller]| has contributed largely to our 



* H. G. Forbes. A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. 

 Lundon, 1885. 



t D'Albertis. New Guinea, Vol. i. pp. 355-401. 1881. 



% R. McLachlan. On the Termites collected by the Rev. Thos. Black- 

 burn. Ann. Nat. Hist. (5), xii. p. 221, 1883. 



§ H. W. Bates. Naturalist on the River Amazon, Lond. 1863; and 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. Vol. ii. 1854. 



II Fritz Miiller. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Termiten. Jen. Z. Nat. vii. 

 pp. 337, 451, 1873; and I.e. 1875 avd 1887. 



