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color, with 13 segments to antennae, and the compound eyes pig- 

 mented grey. The abdomen is not distended. No abdominal 

 appendices are present. 



On February 19, 1919, a young reproductive pair of the second 

 form of schwarzi was found at Paradise Key, Florida, in a decaying 

 log; young and eggs were present. The female had no anal appen- 

 dices present, and had the abdomen slightly distended. Both had 

 the usual pigmentation to body and eyes. There were 14 to 15 

 segments to the antennae. The length of the male was 8 mm. and 

 the female 10 mm. 



The young or incipient colonies are of small size, there bemg 

 usually only one-half dozen young. 



The eggs are white in color, reniform in shape, and nearly 1^ 

 mm. in length. 



References to biological or economic literature. 



1919. Banks, N. Bull. Miis. Comp. Zool., vol. 62, No. 10, p. 478. 

 1919. Thompson. C. B., and Snyder. T. E. Biol. Bull., vol.36, No. 2, pp. 115-132. 

 1919. Snyder, T. E. Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 97-104, May. 

 1919. Thompson, C. B. Biol. Bull., vol. 36, No. 6, p. 379-398. 



KALOTERMES JOUTELI Banks. 



For taxonomy see p. 25. 



This is not a common species in the United States. It occurs 

 both in Cuba: Cayamas, 1903 (Schwarz), Hoyo de Manicaragua, 

 Santa Clara, and Woodfred Inn, Pinares-Oriente, 1917 (W. M. Mann); 

 and also in Mexico: Tampico and Vera Cruz; in the United States 

 it was first found at Adam Key, a coral reef in Dade Count}^, Florida, 

 about 27 miles south of Miami, on May 15, 1916, and March 22, 1917, 

 by the writer. Later — on November 29, 1918 — W. E. Brown 

 found nymphs and soldiers of this termite at Miami Beach, just 

 across Biscayne Bay from Miami. The termites were found in a 

 1 by 4 by 30 inch cypress stake under his house, one of the stakes 

 that was driven into the gromid by the house builders when they were 

 bracing the forms for the concrete piers to support the flooring 

 timbers. The stakes were in their original position, and the one 

 that contained the termites broke off almost at touch and was 

 very light. It was hollow and could be crushed in the hands. The 

 cells in the soft cypress wood containing the termites were large 

 and long. 



Later (on Dec. 9, 1918) W, E. BroAvn collected additional specimens 

 of this termite in 1 by 8 inch pine forms around the base of the piers 

 under his house ; the termites were only in the moist wood m contact 

 with the ground. Among the soldiers, nymphs, recently hatched 

 young, and eggs was a queen of the third form over 10 mm. in 



