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(G. W. Froggatt), Shoalhaven, from all of whom I have received 

 notes and spechnens. From Victoria, Mr. G. S. Perrin (Conser- 

 vator of Forests); Mr. J. L. Billingshurst, Castlemaine, and the 

 Curator of the National Museum have assisted me. For Queens- 

 land species I am indebted to Mrs. Black, Lolworth Station; Mr. 

 J. R. Chisholm, Torrens Creek; H. E. S. Stokes, Norman ton; Mr. 

 Gilbert Turner, of Mackay; and Mr. De Vis, the Curator of the 

 Brisbane Museum. 



From the Northern Territory I am in receipt of photographs of 

 the nests and the species forming them taken b}^ Mr. N. Holtze, the 

 Curator of the Botanical Gardens at Port Darwin; while Museum 

 S]3ecimens have been forwarded by Mr. J. G. 0. Tepper, of Adelaide. 



I have had a great numl3er of promises of assistance from various 

 residents in Western Australia, but as yet have only received one 

 lot, but a very interesting collection; from Mr. W. O. Mansbridge, 

 the Warden at Hall's Creek, Kimberley, N.W. Australia. 



Though two species are described from Tasmania, I have been 

 unable to enlist anybody to collect specimens. 



From New Zealand I am indebted to Captain Hutton and Mr. 

 T. F. Cheeseman for placing me in communication with Captain 

 Broun (the Government Entomologist), who has sent me speci- 

 mens of two species described by Brauer. 



From America I have been generously assisted with named 

 specimens from Mr. L. O. Howard (the State Entomologist) and 

 Mr, H. McE. Knower, of the Johns Hopkins University, while 

 Mr. S. S. Scudder, Dr. Packard and Mrs. Dudley have forwarded 

 me papers on these insects. 



Mr. D. Alcock, of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, sent me 

 specimens of Terines taprohanes. The Director of the K. K. 

 Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum in Wien sent me co-types of F. 

 Brauer's named species from Australia, collected b}^ the Novara 

 Expedition in 1868. 



I have Professor B, Grassi and Dr. A. Sandias' splendid 

 Monograph upon the Termites of Catania sent me by the authors, 

 while Mr. AV. F, Kirby, of the British Museum, has examined a 

 series of specimens sent to him, and promised me an}'- assistance 

 in workinsi' them out. 



