WHOLE VOL. 



INDEX 



South 21, io8, 109; South East, 12, 45; Vic- 

 toria, 12, 58, 123, 138; Western, 132, 138 



Australian zoogeographical region, 12, 53, 77, 79, 

 125, 138 



Austria. 15, 41, 51, 54-56, 72, 73, 145, 146 



Avocado seedlings, damage to, 49 



Azarelius singtdaris, Tenebrion. Col., termitophile, 

 126 



B 



Bacillus rotans, 4 



"Bacteria," arsenious poisons, 84 



Bacteria, 3, 4, 13, 49, 85, 93-95; assimilation of 



atmospheric nitrogen, 81; symbiosis, 3, 4, 49, 



86, 93-95. See also Nutrition. 

 Bacteriocytes, 3, 76 

 Bacteriods, 3 

 Bacterium sp., 84 

 Bahamas, 15, 55, 80, 144 

 Baits, 4, 28-30, 32, 33, 37, 44. See also soil 



poisons, etc. 

 Bakelite varnish, (>(>, 129 

 Balance of nature, 4 

 Balantidium termitis, Protozoa, 92 

 Balearic Islands, Spain, 53 

 Baluchistan, 46 



Barbados, 50, 56, 57, 72, 73, 145 

 Barrier, predatory, 52, 148 

 Bibliography, 5, 130, 148 

 Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone, 131 

 Basidiomycetes, fungi, 67 

 Batrisodes, Pselaph., termitophiles, 123 

 Bats, 90 



Beak. See Nasus 

 Beehives, damage to, 39, 40 

 Bees, in abandoned termites nests (West Africa), 



121; honey, 4, 23; stingless, association with, 



4, 59, 120 

 Beetles, termitophiles. See Coleoptera 

 Behavior, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12, 59, 60, 63, 70, 86-88, 



105, 107, 108, 113, 121-123, 126; phylogeny 



of, 8, 59, 78, 86; social, 5, 12, 59; swarming, 



4, 5, 26, 27, 37, 62, 63 

 Bell Telephone Laboratories service records, treated 



poles, 132, 134 

 Bellicositermes, 25, 58, 70, 79, 120 

 bellicosus, 37, 70 

 jeanneli, 79 



natalensis, 26, 69, 82, 115, 121 

 Bengalia depressa, fly, 89, 90 

 Benzene hexachloride, gammexane, BHC, 31, 33, 



34, 47, 48, 87, 111-113, 115, 129, 137; 



emulsion, soil poison, 113, 114 

 Benzenehexachloride in kerosene, soil poison, 112 

 Benzenes, chlorinated, 114 

 Benzine, 109 

 Bermuda, 42, 48 



Beta-naphthol in oil, 130, 131, 136 

 Better Business Bureau, U. S., 27 

 Bids, U. S. Navy, 31, 36 

 Biochemical control, 24 

 Biogeography, 8, 52 

 Biography, 5 

 Biological methods, standard testing resistance, 



134 

 Biology, ecology, natural history, life history, 4-20, 



62, 63, 67, 70, 86, 87, 94, 96, 117, 120, 121; 

 biology important in identification, 20; Collem- 

 bola, 120; Protozoa, 94, 96, 126; termitophiles, 

 121-123; Termitoxcniidae, 121 



Birch, yellow, untreated, lengdi of life, 130 



Birds, in nests, 6, 119, 121, 122; predators, 47, 

 88-90 



Biting, female by male, 4, 5, 7, 16, 37 



Blastogene theory, 25 



Blattaria, roaches and termites, 60 



Blattidae, roaches, 4, 69, 75, 81, 86, 123 



BlatteJa, roach, 70 



Blattoidea, Africa, Kilimandjaro-Meru, termit- 

 ophiles, 125 



Blattopteroids, 76, 77 



Bleeding, wood preservative, 132 



Blisters, detection by, 49 



Blood lymph, 37 



Bluebirds, mountain, predators, 90 



Body articulation, skin and tracheae of termite 

 king, 75 



Boliden salt, wood preservative, 129, 130, 134 



Bolivia, 12, 19, 24, 57, 76, 107, 115, 120, 145 



Bolsiusia termitophila, phorid, E. Indies, termit- 

 ophile, 124 



Bonds, 31, 36 



Books, damage, 20, 27, 28, 31, 38-41, 59, 118, 

 119, 137; control, 65, 118, 119 



"Bookworms," damage by, 41 



Borax, 87, 130 



Borax -boric acid, wood preservative, 130, 131 



Boric acid, wood preservative, 130 



Borneo, 18, 56, 85, 90, loi, 102, 125, 140, 141, 

 148 



Boston area, 52, 142 



Brachypterous reproductives, 12, 14, 18, 20, 25, 



63, 107 



Brain, 59, 76, 77, 107, 108, 115 



Brazil, 8, 9, 12, 15, 18, 19, 25, 27, 28-30, 34, 

 36, 39, 40, 42-45, 48, 51, 55-58, 63, 72, 78, 

 80, 89, 93, 94, 106, 115, 116, 119-126, 144, 



145. 

 Breeding. See Rearing 

 Breuiceps mossambicus, amphibian, 89 

 Brickmaking, nests used in, 80, 127 

 British colonies, 109 

 British Columbia, 6, 38, 42, 51, 57, 95, 118, 142, 



143 



British Commonwealth, 21, 31-32, 38-42, 53 



British Guiana, 8, 44, 46, 51, 52, 56, 58, 63, 72, 

 73, 78, 80, 85, 88, 89, 96, 119-123, 144, 145 



British Museum, catalog collection, 148 



Brood, 15, 16 



Building codes, city, 21, 22, 33, 128, 135, 136. 

 See also Control, Resistant woods. Wood preser- 

 vation. 



Buildings, control, 27-37; franie, U. S., 39; dam- 

 age, 27-43 



Building terms, 32 



Bidhitermes, 116 



neoptisilltis, 117 



Btdlanymplia, Protozoa, 96 



Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 

 U. S., termite-proofing specifications, 21; soil 

 poisons, no, 112; tests of wood preservatives, 

 31. 79. 130, 131, 134> 136 



