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the crow flies, between four and five thousand miles separate the 

 two places. One could easily afford to ignore Hagen*s record 

 were it not that Holmgren (1913) recorded destructor from four 

 places in the Natal-Zululand area and spoke of the collection 

 before him being unique as it contained all castes of the ancient 

 destructor.. Circumstances do not justify Holmgren's determin- 

 ation and from the evidence he puts forward one is justified in 

 concluding that he was dealing either with nest variants or forms 

 of T.vulgaris Haviland. Indeed, from two places, Durban and 

 Estcourt, he reports both destructor and vulgaris, Estcourt being 

 the type locality of vulgaris. 



2. Odontotermes tragardhi Holgrem (] 9] 3). This species 

 is based upon material from Pietermarttzburg, Durban and 

 Estcourt. At all three places 7". badius is commonly met with 

 and the last named centre is the type locality of badius. The 

 description given by Holmgren of the major soldiers applies to 

 badius. The minor soldiers and workers, and imagos, may be 

 those of angustatus. It is, however, very difficult to surmise what 

 the material may have represented but one is led to suspect that 

 the species was erected upon mixed material. 



3. Termes transvaalensis Sjost. Holmgren (1913) records 

 iransvaalensis from the Duku Duku Bush in Zululand. It is by 

 no means impossible for transvaalensis to occur in Zululand but 

 it is more likely that the record relates to badius. The imagos 

 of transvaalensis and badius are quite different; by no means 

 alike as stated by me ( 1 9 1 5 ) ; the soldiers are not difficult to tell 

 apart. 



4. Termes badius Hav. Silvestri (1908) records badius 

 from Phitsane, Kalahari, collected there by L. Schultze. Then 

 again Schultze (p. 592. " From Namaqualand to the 

 Kalahari **) speaks of the chimneys made by badius to the 

 north of Phitsane and reproduces a photograph of the nest of the 

 reputed badius. The photograph represents the nest of T. trans- 

 vaalensis. This causes one to question the record given by 

 Silvestri although it is by no means unlikely that badius docs 

 occur at Phitsane. 



