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collected when attracted to lights as follows: Brownsville, Texas, 

 June 20, 1895 (C. H. T. Townsend); June 5, 1904 (Barber); San Diego, 

 Texas, May 18 (Schwarz); Victoria, Texas, August 19, 1902, Sep- 

 tember 1, 1902, September 5, 1902 (W. E. Hinds); May 26, 1913 

 (Coad) ; Albany, Georgia, May 15, 1916 (Pierce). On May 19, 1916, 

 the writer found winged, pigmented adults in a cypress telephone 

 pole near Pooler, Georgia. On March 13, 1917, D. C. Parman found 

 adults of this species with wings but not pigmented in a mesquite 

 log at Uvalde, Texas, On April 24, 1917, the writer found at Browns- 

 ville, Texas, winged adults that were maturely pigmented and ready 

 to swarm in stumps. 



On April 22, 1917, the writer found colonies of this species at Point 

 Isabel, Texas, in logs of wood sunken in sand a little way back from 

 the beach; probably originally driftwood logs. A young first form 

 queen, with slightly distended abdomen and approximately 9 mm. 

 in length, with numerous eggs, was found in one of these logs. 



The eggs are white, reniform in shape, and nearly 1^ mm. in length. 



K. marginipennis has habits similar to other species of Kalotermes, 

 some of which will be discussed in more detail. 



This small common species found about buildings and in timber, 

 such as telephone poles, etc., has been introduced into Hawaii, 

 according to Bryan (1915). With the peculiar Hawaiian species 

 Neotermes (Calotermes) castaneus Burmeister found in the native 

 forests, these are so far the only representatives of the family Ter- 

 mitidae found in the islands according to Bryan. Bryan states that: 



their nests are hollowed out of the timbers in which they carefully eat out the interior, 

 leaving an outer shell in such a manner as to exclude the light. In this hidden way 

 they do a great many thousand dollars' worth of damage to houses in Hawaii every 

 year. In some cases the heart of the timbers that formed the building have been so 

 badly eaten that in time the structure has actually fallen to pieces * * *. 



According to Dudley (1889) on the Isthmus of Panama, K. margini- 

 pennis works in hard, dry wood, choice hardwood furniture being 

 especially relished. White ash door posts and seat rails of the first- 

 class coaches of the Panama Railroad Company which were in daily 

 service were destroyed by this termite. (PI. 19, fig. 2.) 



References to biological and economic literature. 



1887-88. Dudley, P. H. Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 8, 1888-89, pp. 85-114. 



1889. Dudley, P. H. Journ. N. Y. Micros. Soc, vol. 5, No. 2, April, pp. 56-70. 



1890. Dudley, P. H. Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., vol. 9, pp. 157-180. 

 1896. Schwarz, E. A. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 4, No. 1, p. 41. 



1915. Bryan, W. A. Natural History of Hawaii, p. 425. 



1916. Snyder, T. E. Bull. U. S. Dept. Agric, No. 333, p. 15, Feb. 16. 



1918. Banks, N. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 38, art. 17, p. 659, Nov. 29. 



