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mostly from the end of old galleries. On December 8, Chrisman 

 noted that the termites were near the butt in shallow cells, one pair 

 to cell. The cells have been enlarged since October 10.; the cells are 

 shallow and oval, or "flat." 



On January 23, 1917, at the Alamo Ranch, near Sabino Canyon, 

 in the Santa Catalina Mountains, George Hofer found parent adults of 

 K. Jiuhhardi in incipient colonies in a cottonwood limb, from the top 

 of a large tree known to be broken off during a windstorm in May, 

 1915. The wood was apparently sound. Young termites were in the 

 cells, which were as yet shallow and in the sapwood. The entrance was 

 effected under the bark and the entrance hole was of a size to permit 

 the insects to pass it, but no wider. This led to a shallow, oval, 

 longitudinal cell, in which were the parent adults and young termites. 



As in species of Beticulitermes, the incipient colonies consist of a 

 small number of individuals. Usually only about a half dozen eggs 

 are laid for the first brood. 



On May 12, 1917, near Tucson, Arizona, the writer found young 

 parent adults in incipient colonies of this species in the dry, hard 

 sound wood of a dead cottonwood tree, and there were young in the 

 colonies. On May 21 similar colonies were found in a dead willow 

 tree along the Santa Cruz River, near Nogales, Arizona. Young and 

 eggs were also in these colonies. (Figs. 67 and 68.) 



The eggs are reniform in shape and fully H mm. in length, and are 

 white in color. 



KALOTERMES TEXANUS Banks. 



For taxonomy see pp. 29-31. 



Only the soldier of this termite has as yet been found ; it was dis- 

 covered by the writer on May 5, 1917, in a colony in the dry, hard 

 wood of a log near the crest of Chalk Bluff on the Nueces River, 

 near Laguna, Texas, 16 miles north of Uvalde. Longitudinal cham- 

 bers were excavated in the wood ; nymphs of sexual adults were also 

 present. The usual impressed pellets of excrement were in the 

 burrows. 



KALOTERMES SIMPLICICORNIS Banks, 



For taxonomy see p. 32. 



On May 4, 1917, the writer found a colony of Kalotermes in a stump 

 smiken in the ground on the bank of an u-rigating ditch, at Laguna, 

 Texas. Laguna is 20 miles north of Uvalde. Soldiers and nymphs 

 of sexual adults were present in the colony. 



The antennae of the soldiers of this termite are simple, as in 

 species in the genus Neotermes. The third joint is not enlarged as 



