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VOL. 130 



construction, 38, 40, 46; tin cans, 40; tubs, 41; 

 wallpaper, 38, 44; war materials, 38; wine 

 bottles, 40; wood, 38-43, 71; woodwork, 20, 

 38, 59 



Damage (geographical), Africa, 38-41, 43; An- 

 tilles, 38; Australia, 38-41, 43; Bermuda, 42; 

 Brazil, 39, 40, 42; British Columbia, 38, 42; 

 British Commonwealth, 38-42; Canal Zone, 39, 

 42; Ceylon, 39, 43; Ecuador, 38; Fiji, 39; 

 Formosa, 38, 40; France, 38, 39; German 

 colonies, 39; Germany, 41-43; Hawaii, 38-42; 

 India, 38, 40, 41; Indo-China, 38; Italy, 42; 

 Java, 39, 40; New Zealand, 40, 42; Pakistan, 

 38; Philippines, 40; Puerto Rico, 41-43; Russia, 

 40; St. Helena, 40; Trinidad, 38, 41; United 

 States, 18, 27-43; Venezuela, 40; West Indies, 

 39; World, 42 



Damage (to living vegetation), 7, 32, 34-37, 41, 

 43-49, loi, 103, 109, 112, 113; Acer rtihrum, 

 45, agriculture, 43-47; apple, 45, 48; Argania 

 spinosa, 47; artichokes, 44, 45; avocado seed- 

 lings, 49; beans, 47, 48; blackberry roots, 48; 

 cabbage, 41, 44; cacao, 43, 4s, 46, 48; cane 

 plants, 43, 46, 47, 49; chillies (Capiscum) , 45, 

 no; citrus trees, 36, 37, 43-48; coconut palm, 

 33, 46-48; coffee, 46, 48; collard, 46; cork oak, 

 47, corn, 48; cotton, 43-48; crops, 33, 37, 

 43-49, 112; cultivated areas, 44; derris, 47; 

 elm trees, 45; eucalyptus plantations, 30, 34, 

 45; Eucalyptus rostrata, 47; eucalyptus trees, 

 43; flowers, 113; fruit, 43, 47; gardens, 47; 

 grain, 47; grape vines, 43, 45, 47, 48; grass 

 and grasslands, 29, 33, 44, 45, 47, 49; green- 

 house plants, 46, 113; ground nuts, 43; guava 

 bushes, 43, 44; guayulc, nursery stock, 44; 

 Hevea braziliensis, 44-47; juniper trees, 48; 

 kapokier, 44; lac, 45; lawns, 44; lemon trees, 

 45; lime trees, 45; mahogany trees, loi, maize, 

 47, 48; maple trees, 48; mulberry trees, 45, 46; 

 nursery stock, 29; oaks, 45; orchards, 30, 43, 

 45, 47; orange trees, 44, 45; ornamentals, 48; 

 palms, 46; pecan, 45, 48; peppertree, 45; pine- 

 apple, 44; Pinus radiata, 46; plane tree, 43; 

 plantations, 30, 45; plants, 32, 34-37, potatoes, 

 48; prune trees, 27, 43; Qtiercus suher, 47; rice 

 plants, 44, 48; rubber trees, 43-48, 86, 87, no; 

 sandal forests, 44; shrubs, 44; sugarcane, 27, 

 33. 34, 37, 41, 43-49, 109, III, "2; sweet 

 potatoes, 43; tea bushes, 27, 31, 32, 43-46, 48, 

 87; teak trees, 12, 32, 46, 47, 103; timber, 29, 

 31; tobacco, 46, 112; trees, 7, 27, 30, 34, 41, 

 43-48, 57; turnip, 46, 47; veldt, 44; vines, 43, 

 45, 46; vineyards, 30, 45, 47; wheat, 45, 47-49 



Damp-wood termites, 30-32, 43, 44 



Day termite, or harvester, 68 



DDT. See dichloro-diphenyl-trichlorethane 



Danger zones, 56 



Dealation, 10, 16, 17, 25, 62, 77 



Death, following feast on Hodotermes, 50, 64; 

 sudden, 6, 19, 50 



Debris, jungle, 6 



Decapitation, 60 



Decay, damage by, 132, 134, 135; factors in- 

 fluencing, 129; fungus, buildings, 133; preven- 

 tion of, 30, 128, 129, 132-134; resistance to. 



100-103, 135; wood preservatives, 128, 129, 

 132, 136 



Defaunation, 91-93, 98 



Dehydrated tar, repellent, 109, 112 



Democracy, in colony, 20 



Dentispicotermes, 116 



Deposits, 18 



Dermatonotiis mulleri, frog, 90 



Derris. See rotenone 



Descent, 59, 85 



Deserts, 6, 12, 20, 51, 54, 56, 58, 128, 143, 146 



Detection, 19, 29, 49, 61, 63, 74. See also Experi- 

 mentation; Microphones; X-ray 



Deterioration, Tropics, 134 



Development, 9, 13, 14, 18, 20, 22-25, 53, 59, 

 60, 75-77, 81, 83, 84, 86, 90, 94, 95, 99, 106; 

 caste, 53, 61; checked chemobiologically, 23; 

 embryonic, 77; generative tract, 59, 69, 76; 

 gonads, 84; inhibited or suppressed by sexual 

 secretion, 99; phylogenetic, 59; precocious, 24; 

 progressive, 60; regressive, 60; soldier-caste, 

 83, 86, 90; supplemental rcproductives, 106 



Development, Eutermes rippertii (?), 13, 76; 

 Macrotermes gilvtis, 13; Termes redemantii, 59, 



75 

 Devescovina, Protozoa, 93, 96 

 Devescovinidae, Protozoa, 94, 96 

 Diaglena spatulata, tree frog, 90 

 Diastase, 81, 99 

 Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT), 29, 30, 



34, 86, 87, 110-115, 129, 131, 133, 137 

 Dieldrin, soil poison, 43, in, 112 

 Diet, 23, 24, 49, 66, 81-83, 97; cellulose, 12, 49, 



50, 60, 68, 81-83, 91-98; effect of Protozoa, 



81-83, 91-98; effect on intestinal fauna, 50, 



81-83, 97; role of fungi, 82, 83. See also Food; 



Nutrition 

 Diffusion double, 130, 131 

 Digestion, 26, 49, 50, 81-83, 91-98. See also 



Nutrition; Protozoa 

 Digestive organs, 49, 76 

 Digestive system, 50, 77 

 Digestive tract, 49, 76, 77, 95 

 Digestive tube, 50 

 Dinenympha fimbriata, Protozoa, 95 

 Dinenympha gracilis, 92 

 3, 5-dinitro-o-cresol, 131 

 Dinitrophenol, 133 

 Diphenyl, soil poison, 113 

 Diphenylamine, 113 

 Diplopoda, termitophiles, 124, 125 

 Dipterous larvae, association with, 5 

 Dipterous parasite, 13, 85 

 Diseases, human, plant, and termite, 3, 50, 66, 



82, 93. See also Parasites 

 Dispersal, center of, theories, 53; flight, 62 

 Distribution, 7, 16, 46, 50-59, 69, 72, 73, 117, 



118, 147, 148 

 District of Columbia, 73, 128 

 Ditrichonionas {Trichomonas) termitis, Protozoa, 



92 

 Diversitermes, 125 

 Division of labor, 16, 18, 62 

 Dog, predator, 89 

 Dogwood, 63 

 Dolichorhinotermes, 117 



