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Bryk, F., 1927, pp. 1-3. (Children make 

 rhythmic noise by hammering with sticks 

 upon wood, producing sound as of pat- 

 tering rain to lure Odontotermes to 

 swarm into trap for food for natives in 

 East Africa, at foot of Mount Elgon.) 



BuGNioN, E., 1913c, pp. 125-139. (Sound pro- 

 duced in rhythm, India.) 



Buxton, P. A., 1923, pp. 271-273. (Freetown, 

 Sierra Leone, ahitude 500 feet, small 

 numbers winged termites emerging at 

 I p.m. from subterranean nest under 

 stones in shady spot, June 18. Ground 

 near mouth of nest covered with thou- 

 sands of small soldiers and small num- 

 bers large soldiers — over radius 3 feet. 

 All were making a rhythmical sound, 

 resembling noise made by sand falling on 

 brown paper, by tapping their heads on 

 dead leaves on which they were standing. 

 Sound produced in perfect time at rate 



of 48 beats per minute. Acanthotermes 

 militaris. Impulse auditory, not due to 

 a mechanical vibration in case termites 

 standing on many different dead leaves 

 over a considerable radius.) 



Connor, F. P., 1933, p. 1018. (Rhythmic 

 sound, termites at work, India.) 



GouNELLE, E., 1900, pp. 168-169. (Sounds 

 produced by large number termites tap- 

 ping heads on dried leaves of Bromeliads 

 in Brazil, like a pinch of sand hitting 

 paper.) 



Snyder, T, E., I926f, p. 536. (Rhythmic syn- 

 chronous swarming of termites, Reticuli- 

 termes, U.S.) 



Thyagaraju, a. S., 1934, p. 745. (India, 

 rhythmic sound.) 



Williams, C. B., 1922, pp. 173-176. (Dis- 

 cusses Gounelle's note and states that the 

 movement (tapping) is apparendy not 

 rhythmic, p. 174.) 



SECRETIONS 



Anonymous, 1933, pp. 8-9. (Chemical war- 

 fare by termites.) 



Bathellier, J., 1922a, pp. 399-403. (Nature 

 of the glue of Eutermes.) 

 ^9V> PP- 125-365. (Indo-China, secretion 

 nasutiform soldier for defense.) 



BiDiE, G., 1882, p. 549. (Erosion of glass by 

 termites.) 



BuGNioN, E., 1927, pp. 1-44. (Protection 

 against ants.) 



BucNioN, E., and Popoff, N., 1910*, pp. 107- 

 108. (Coptotermes travians, Ceylon, se- 

 cretes a latex in frontal gland soldier.) 



Cook, O. F., 1900, pp. 516-521. (Nasutiform 

 termite secretes camphor, isonitriles.) 



Emerson, A. E., 1929a, pp. 722-727. (Odor 

 and sound means communication.) 



Ghidini, G. M., 1939, pp. 207-213. (Presence 

 of "acetileolina" (bile.?) in Reticulitermes 

 lucijugus and Calotermes ftavicoUis.) 



Ghidini, G. M., and Moriggi, M., 1939, pp. 

 345-353- (Pericardial concretion.) 



Grasse, p. p., and Lesperon, L., 1936, p. 1013. 



R\ldane, J. B. S., 1924, p. 676. (Growdi- 

 regulating substance in termites, physo- 

 gastry of insects feeding on termites or 

 their secretions.) 



Hanstroem, B., 1940, pp. 227-235. (Internal 

 secretory organs head Mastotermes dar- 

 winiens'ts, Zootermopsis angusticollis, and 

 Termes gdvus.) 



Hegh, E., 1922, pp. 221-224. (Food by re- 

 gurgitation and defecation.) 



Hingston, R. W. G., 1928, pp. 717-725. (In- 

 dia, Eutermes bijormis, soldier, sticky 

 clear fluid in beak for defense.) 



Holmgren, N., 1909*, pp. 190-203. (Exudate 

 theory, relationship between amount exu- 

 date tissue and the care a termite receives, 

 as licking and feeding.) 



Jucci, C, 1921a, pp. 213-215. (Presence of 

 deposits of uratics ("uratici") in the 

 fatty tissue.) 

 1932, pp. 1422-1429. (Presence of bacterio- 

 cytes ( "batter iociti") in fatty tissue.) 



Light, S. F., r944a, pp. 413-454. (Ectohor- 

 monal control of the development of 

 supplementary reproductives in Zooter- 

 mopsis.) 



McIndoo, N. E., 1923, pp. 367-381. (Glandu- 

 lar structure of abdominal appendages of 

 the termitophile Spirachtha.) 



McLaciilan, R., 1878, p. xii. (Acid liquid 

 from cephalic process Termes ripperti, 

 Cuba.) 



Mukerji, D., and Raychaudhuri, S., 1943b, 

 p. 167. (Bearing of exudate organs on 

 postadult growth, Termes redemanni, 

 India.) 



Nasonoff, N. v., 1893, pp. 700-702. (Salivary 

 glands nasuti and soldiers.) 



OsHiMA, M., 1919, pp. 337-338, 347-374- 

 (Acidulous secretions from frontal gland 

 soldier Coptotermes jormosanus dissolves 

 lime mortar, Formosa.) 



