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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 130 



Leticotermes ludfugus, 58 

 philippinensis, 48 

 sperattis, 51, 98 

 tenuis, 40, 48, 97 



Leverkusen, termite station, 133 



Liability, legal, on seller for fraud, 32 



Lias, 64 



Licking or grooming, 24, 106, 123 



Life activity, 17 



Life history. See Biology 



Light. See phototropism 



Lignin, 25, 26, 79, 102, 103 



Lignite coal-tar creosote, 131 



Lignivorous termites, 82 



Lime, 25, 87, 112 



Lime carbonate, 25; in mounds, Tanganyika, 25, 

 78, 127 



Lime mortar, disintegrated or dissolved, 18, 26, 

 41, 106, 107 



Limits, damage, New England, 42 



Lists, termite: Africa, 8; Antilles, 50; Australia, 

 12; Balearic Islands, 53; Barbados, 57; Belgian 

 Congo, 52; British Guiana, 52; Burma, 141; 

 Canal Zone, 59; Ceylon, 11, 141; fossil, 64; 

 Hawaii, 52; India, 51, 141; Indo-Malaya, 51, 

 140, 141; Malaya, 52; Panama, 59; Subtropics, 

 53; Tropics, 53; U.S., 19, 64; world, 52, 53, 

 57. 64, 148 



Lizards, predators, 13, 88-90; tcrmitophiles, 121, 

 122 



Lobopelta, poncrine ant, 88, 91 



Localities, collecdng, 6 



Locomotion, rate of, 5 



Lomayia, Neuroptera, predator, 89 



London purple, poison dust, 87 



Longevity. See Length of life 



Loo-Choo, 55, 141 



Lophomonadidae, Protozoa, 93 



hophomonas , Protozoa, 97 



Lophophora vacttolata, Protozoa, 92 



Loss, crop, percentages, 47-49; monetary, Ala- 

 bama, 39; New York, 41; St. Helena, 40; U.S., 

 42; not deductible for taxes, 38, 40 



Louisiana, 19, 21, 22, 27, 29, 35, 42, 57, 114, 128, 

 130, 135, 143 



"Love-walk," 37 



Loyalty Islands, 94 



Luminosity, nests, 13, 18, 78, 79, 80; termites, 

 6, 13 



Lumber, selected, 36 



Lye, soil poison, 113 



Lygaide, Hemiptera, termitophiles, 119 



Lymph, blood, 37, 69 



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Macrohodotermes mossambicus transvaalensis, 85 

 Macrotermes, 10, 29, 38, 62, 70, 79, 80, 82, 85, 

 102, no, 117, 122, 123 



barneyi, 53, 81 



bellicosus, 67, 80 



gilvus, 6, II, 13, 22, 62, 67, 77, 79, 82, 84, 

 85, 88, 100, 135 



ivorensis, 116 



natalensis, 16, 78, 115, 120 



nigericnsis, 63 



Macrotermitinae, 11, 16, 67, 79 



Macrotrichomonadinae, Protozoa, 94 



Macrotrichomonas , Protozoa, 96; M. pulchra, 96 



Madagascar, 29, 51, 54, 67, 72, loi, 116, 142 



Madeira, 15, 48, 53, 55, 146 



Madera He, 146 



Magnesia, 25 



Magneto, detection by, 61 



Mahogany, Swietenia, loi, 103 



Malagasy Zoogeographical Region, 142 



Malaya, 8, 9, 16, 17, 19, 43-45, 47, 55, 84, 86, 



87, 89, 101, 102, no, 132, 140, 141 

 Malay Penninsula Archipelago, 12, 27, 31, 43-45, 



54, 56, 72, 125, 140, 141, 148 

 Malaysia, 70 



Male reproductives, extracts of, 13, 14, 23, 82 

 Mates and females, proportion, 6, 12, 88 

 Malpighian tubes, 82 

 Mandibles, articulation, 76; function of, 13; 



imago-worker, classification by, 59, 75, 85, 



116; soldier, 59, 76, 86 

 Manis pentadactyla, pangolin, 89, 90 

 Manitoba, 19, 57, 143 

 Mantidae, 69, 75 

 Manure, 37; heaps without fungi, 79; mounds 



used for, 81 

 Maps, distribution, Africa, 52; Canada, 73; Italy, 



57; U. S., 51; World, 52, 118, 147; limit of 



damage in U. S. 41, 42, 57 

 Margarodcs, Hcmipt., Cape Colony termitophiles, 



126 

 Marquesas, 147 

 Martinique, 73 



Maryland, 21, 40, 90, no, 112-114 

 Massachusetts, 29, 39, 45, 47, 52, 60, 62, 88 

 Mastotennes, 3, 4, 28, 43, 44, 46, 70, 75, 89, 



102, 112 

 danviniensis, 3, 12, 43, 48, 59, 75, 82, 85, 

 86, 106, 107, 109-111, 125 

 Mastotcrmitidae, 77, 92 

 Mattirolclla silvestrii, 85 

 Maurice, Isle, 15, 55, 142 

 Mauritius, 15, 33, 47, 54, 55, 72, 73, 87, 142 

 Medicine, uses in, 50, 74 

 Mediterranean, 10, 94 

 Megaponera foetens, ant, 89 

 Melipona (Trigona) dallatorreana , stinglcss bee, 



4, 121 

 Meliponids, termitophiles, 4, 122, 125 

 Memory, temporal, 61 

 Mendelian laws, 24 

 Mercuric chloride, bichloride mercury, corrosive 



sublimate, poison dust, 87; soil poison, no; 



wood preservative, 131, 132 

 Mercuric naphthenate, wood preservative, 130 

 Mermis sp., parasite, 85 

 Mcrmithid worms, parasites, 85 

 Mcsojoenie, Protozoa, 24 

 Mesopotamia, 146 

 Metabolism, caste determination, 23; gaseous, 60; 



moisture produced by, 71; metabolic relations, 



68, 81, 92, n8 

 Metacoronympha, Protozoa, 96 

 Metadevescovina, Protozoa, 96; M. debilis, 96, 97 

 Mctajoenic, 24 



