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KALOTERMES SCHWARZI Banks. 



For taxonomy see pp. 22-25. 



K. schwarzi is the commonest species of Kalotennes in southern 

 Florida, yet it had not been collected until May 13, 1916, when the 

 writer found it near Miami Beach, Florida, in logs and dead and 

 injured trees in a mangrove swamp. This species is named in honor 

 of E. A. Schwarz, of the United States National Museum, who, with 

 H. G. Hubbard, has done pioneer work in this country in studying 

 the habits of our native termites. 



Pensacola, Miami Beach, near Miami (10 miles west in the Ever- 

 glades, in a hammock), Cocoanut Grove (Brickell Hammock), ''Front 

 Prairie" in the Everglades, Paradise Key, Palma Vista, and Adam 

 Key are the only localities where this species has as yet been found. 

 P. Cardin collected soldiers of this termite at Santiago Las Vegas, 

 Cuba, in a dead tree (Experiment Station) on October 30, 1915. 



SWARMING. 



This species has habits similar to marginipennis. It probably 

 swarms the last of April or in May. The ^vriter found winged 

 adults attaining mature pigmentation at Paradise Key, May 14, 

 1916; at Cocoanut Grove (Brickell Hammock) on March 31, 1917; 

 and on April 4, 1917, and April 8, 1918, at Miami Beach; and on 

 January 1, 1919, on Ragged Key, No. 6, near Sands Key (W. E. 

 Brown). 



E. schwarzi often occurs in the same dead tree or log with K. 

 jouteli Banks, Neotermes castanens Burmeister, or Cryptotermes cavi- 

 frons Banks. 



A first-form queen of this termite with slightly distended abdom^en 

 was collected by the ^vriter at Palma Vista on March 27, 1917. This 

 queen was in a colony in a log, across the Everglade "prairie" west 

 from Paradise Key — Royal Palm Hammock. The queen is approxi- 

 mately S mm. in length. 



Another first form queen was fomid on April 3, 1917, in a man- 

 grove swamp at Miami Beach. This queen and the attendant 

 male were in a colony in a decayed area at the base of a living red 

 mangrove tree. The abdomen was distended and the queen was 

 approximately 9 J mm. in length; the male was approximately 

 8 mm. in length. The eggs were in a cluster and then appeared to 

 be of a pink color — possibly stained by the tannic acid in the sap 

 of the tree. This color has smce disappeared. 



In a colony of K. schwarzi Banks, in a decaying mangrove log, 

 at Miami Beach, Florida, the writer fomid a young reproductive 

 female of the second form on April 4, 1917. This female is 6^ mm. 

 in length, has rudimentary wing pads, is pigmented a yellow-brown 



