SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 130 



Anonymous, 1935, p. 178. (Australia, weigh- 

 ing population mound nest, calculated 

 colony held 1,561,400 workers, 201,000 

 soldiers, 44,100 nymphs.) 



(Banks, N., and) Snyder, T. E., 1920*, pp. 

 113-115. (U.S., proportionate number 

 castes in colonies.) 



Beebe, W., 1916, pp. 114, 116. (Fauna 4 sq. 

 ft. jungle debris.) 



RoDENHEiMER, F. S., 1937, PP- 393-430- (Neo- 

 termes tectonae, population problems, so- 

 cial insects.) 



Brues, C. T., 1946, pp. 23-24. (3 million ter- 

 mites in one carton nest in South Amer- 

 ica; Nasutitertnes in Jamaica half million, 

 'traffic" in and out of nest amounts to 

 about 8,000 termites per hour at time 

 greatest activity — shortly after midnight.) 



Emerson, A. E., 1939a, pp. 287-300. (Popu- 

 lation social insects.) 

 1945, pp. 14-19. (Population genetics.) 

 1947, pp. 337-345. (Populations undergo 



evolution to supraorganisms.) 

 1949, in Allee et al., p. 722. (Termite popu- 

 lations.) 



Gay, F. J., and Greaves, T., 1940, pp. 145- 

 149. (Australia, Coptotermes lacteus 

 mound colony in winter.) 



Grasse, P. P., 1939b, pp. 251-262. (Proportion 

 males and females, number soldiers in a 

 termitary.) 



Gupta, S. D., 1953, pp. 697-704. (Odonio- 

 termes obesus, India, proportion workers 

 49%, soldiers 7.7%, nymphs 43.3% col- 

 ony in non-mound-building months; in 

 latter 66.5% workers, 5.5% soldiers, 28% 

 nymphs. Population fungus-combs has 

 higher proportion nymphs than else- 

 where.) 



HoLDAWAY, F. G., Gay, F. J., and Greaves, T., 

 I935j PP- 42-46. (Australia, estimated 

 population 4 mounds, Eutermes exitiosus; 

 temperature factor in seasonal concen- 

 tration, largest 1,806,500 at lowest tem- 

 perature, smallest 484,300 when weather 

 warmer — mounds of equal size.) 



Lamotte, M., 1947, pp. 88-90. (Population 

 density of a savannah in Guinea less in 

 dry season due to absence of Collembola; 

 latter predominated, followed by ants and 

 termites.) 



Saerosky, C. W., 1952, pp. 1-7. (U.S., colony 

 54 million {ReticnUtcrmes) ; Soutli Amer- 

 ica, 3 million {Nasutitertnes surinamen- 

 sis) ; Australia, nearly 2 million (Nasuti- 

 termes exitiosus, pp. 5-6.) 



Skaife, S. H., 1954a, p. 126. {Amitcrmes at- 

 lanticus, South Africa, 40,000 in mound.) 



Snyder, T. E., i935e, p. 53. (United States.) 

 1948. (General, in Tropics, several million, 

 p. 76; U.S., Vz million {Reticulitermes, 

 p. 84.) 



PREDATORS 



Adams, C. C., 1915, p. 208. (Ant, Aphaeno- 

 gaster fulva, preying on Terines fiat/ipes, 

 Illinois.) 



Adamson, a. M., 1943a, pp. 1-12. (Termites 

 enemy honeybee {Apis mcllijcra), Trini- 

 dad.) 



Anderson, D. A., 1946, p. 29. (Dragonflies, 

 U.S.) 



Andrews, E. A., 1911, p. 202. (Jamaica, Eu- 

 termes ripperti, Camponotus hannani, 

 yellow red ant, predator.) 



Andrews, H. E., 1936, pp. 11-12. {Tachys 

 tertniticola, n. sp., in nest Macrotermcs 

 gih'us, Java.) 



Arnold, G., 1914, pp. 25-32. (Ants, South 

 Africa.) 

 1915, p. 45. {Paltothyreus tarsatus, foraging 

 ant preying on termites, South Africa.) 



(Banks, N., and) Snyder, T. E., 1920*, pp. 

 118, 120-121. (General and ants.) 



B.\RANov, N., 1936, pp. 646-651. (India, mag- 

 gots of Termitoloemtts miirshaUi, n. sp., 

 Calliphoridae, predaceous on termite 

 workers.) 



Bates, H. W., 1861, pp. 69-71. (Great and 

 small anteaters, Amazon River.) 



Beebe, W., 1914, pp. 1141-1145. (Pangolin.) 

 1918, pp. 1561-1566. (Silky anteater, British 



Guiana.) 

 1918a, pp. 158, 233. (Birds; termites im- 

 mune from attack by army ants, Bridsh 

 Guiana.) 



Bequaert, J., 1925, p. 294. (Ponerine ant 

 {Neoponera commutata) preying on 

 workers Syntermes, Amazon.) 



Bingham, C. T., 1903, pp. xLx-f 506. {Lobo- 

 peha, ant, feeding on termites, I3ritish 

 India.) 



Blake, C. H., 1941, p. 38. (Alates of ReticuU- 

 termes flavipes at Lincoln, Mass., cap- 

 tured by ants — Crematogaster lineolata, 

 Aphacnogaster julva aquia, Lasius niger, 

 var. americanus, Formica rufa integra, 

 F. neogagates, and F. nitidiventris; 2 

 other ants are recorded as probably 

 plesiobiotic (symbiotic) in termitaries.) 

 1941a, pp. 91-110. (U.S., termites taken by 

 birds.) 



