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Plate 18. 

 Map of the southern extremity of Florida showing hammocks and keys. 



Plate 19. 

 Fig. 1. Dry, seasoned painted woodwork — siding— of a business railway car damaged 

 by Kalotermes, Los Angeles, California. 



2. Block of ash wood used by Dudley and Beaumont in studying Kalotermes in 



Panama; a "ne plus ultra Calotermiiarium;" the wood is dry. 



3. Cnjptotermes cavifrons. Longitudinal chambers excavated in dry, solid wood 



of a small branch of red mangrove, Adam Key, Florida. 



Plate 20. 



Kalotermes hubbardi and K. viinor. 



Work in dead cottonwood tree, Tucson, Arizona. 



Plate 21. 



Kalotermes hubbardi. 



Cross section of cottonwood rafter of an "adobe" house mined by Kalotermes hubbardi, 

 Tucson, Arizona, October 26, 1895. 



Plate 22. 



Kalotermes hubbardi. 



Longitudinal view of cottonwood rafter in "adobe" building mined by Kalotermes 

 hubbardi, Tucson, Arizona. Note pellets of excrement in the burrows. 



Plate 23. 



Neotermes castaneus. 



Work in solid wood of aerial root of red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), Miami Beach, 



Florida, March 1, 1919. 



Plate 24. 



Prorhinotermes simplex. 



Work in deca^dng log of red mangrove {Rhizophora mangle), Miami Beach, Florida, 



February 28, 1919. 



Plate 25. 



Reticulitermes, species. 



Timber in a building in New Orleans, Louisiana, reduced to the consistency of paper 

 by Reticulitermes, species. Note how the termites have eaten the softer layers of 

 wood and have left the harder. 



Fig. 1. View of wood from top. 



2. Side view showing the layers of harder wood. 



Plate 26. 



Reticulitermes flavipes. 



Damage to roll of paper labels stored in an infested building, Bloomfield, New Jersey. 



Plate 27, 

 Reticulitermes flavipes and Nasutitermes morio. 

 Photographs of longitudinal, microtome sections of the abdomens of the three different 

 types of egg-laying queens of Reticulitermes flavipes to show the relative proportions of 

 the abdomens taken up by eggs and ovaries; also in contrast that of a first-form 

 queen of Nasutitermes morio. (After Thompson and Snyder.) 



