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individuals of the second form, 32 females and 8 males being the 

 relative numbers of the sexes. Some of these individuals had quite a 

 dark brown or castaneous pigmentation to the chitinized parts. The 

 queens had only shghtly distended abdomens, the largest being only 

 6 mm. in length. These second-form individuals were probably of the 

 same brood as a few winged first-form adults which were present. In 

 no instance have winged first-form adults been found in colonies of 

 species of Reticulitermes which contained old second form reproduc- 

 tive individuals. Abdominal appendices were present in these males 

 of the second form but absent in the females. 



On August 20, 1917, the writer found a large fertihzed first-form 

 queen with distended abdomen oi flavipes, 15 mm. in length (meas- 

 ured after preserved in alcohol), and attending male in an oak stump 

 at Kearney, Virginia, in a moist woodland. This queen was in a 

 large cell in the more solid sound wood at the root collar, about 1 foot 

 above the ground. Eggs and young were also present; the eggs were 

 in large clusters. 



A. B. Champlain found on August 28 a large first-form queen with 

 distended abdomen and male in a cell in the more soHd heartwood of a 

 stump at Falls Church, Virginia. The cell was near the ground and 

 was an enlarged main gallery. 



On August 29 the writer found another large first-form queen with 

 distended abdomen and male in the more solid wood of a decaying log 

 lying on the ground near the Maryland and District of Columbia 

 boundary line, beyond Georgetown, in a moist woodland. 



In November, 1917, E. B. Griff en, of the American Telephone & 

 Telegraph Co., while inspecting the bases of telephone poles near 

 Savannah, Georgia, found a large first-form queen of jlavijyes in the 

 base of a chestnut telephone pole. This queen had a distended abdo- 

 men and was 10^ mm. in length. 



In BrickeU Hammock, Cocoanut Grove, Florida, on April 23, 1918, 

 the writer found a young queen of the second form, 6.5 mm. in length, 

 in a colony. The pigmentation is grey-brown and there are 14 seg- 

 ments to the antennae. 



Near Balls Hill, Virginia, on June 19, 1918, the writer found a queen 

 of the first form of R. flavipes that was 16.5 mm. in length, measured 

 after preserving in alcohol. This queen was in a colony in a decayed 

 log of Virginia scrub pine in woodland. The cell in which the queen 

 was located was in the outer layers of wood, but in the more solid wood 

 of a large branch knot. No male was found and doubtless escaped. 

 Numerous eggs were present in the colony which was large. 



Near Dead Run, Virginia, on the same day, 43 reproductive indi- 

 viduals of the second form were found in a fairly large colony in a 

 decayed oak log. The termites, including these reproductive forms 

 (28 queens and 15 males) were in the more decayed outer layers of 

 the wood. This is a relatively large number of males for this number 



