WHOLE VOL. 



297 



Poles, 18, 32, 34, 35, 38-42, 112-114, 119, 128, 



129, 131, 132, 134-137 

 Polybia sctudlaris, Vespid. Hymen., wasp, 76, 90, 



126 

 Polychlorocyclane, 33, iii 

 Polydesmoidea, Diplopoda, termitophile, 125 

 Polygamy, 6, 9, 12, 13, 15, 17, 20, 80 

 Polymastigina, Protozoa, 93 

 Polymastigote, 92, 94, 96 

 Polymorphism, 7, 9, 16, 23, 24, 76 

 Polynesia, 55, 147 

 Polythene, 129 

 Polyvinyl chloride, 129 



Population, 16, 17, 29, 69, 79, 87, 88, 99, 118; 

 Coptotermes lactetis, Australia, 17, 88; Eti- 

 termes exitiostis, Australia, 87, 88, 118; E. 

 rippertii, Jamaica, 87; Guinea, 88; jungle debris, 

 88; Nasutitermes, Jamaica, 87, 88; 2V. suri- 

 namensis, 88; Neotermes, 88; Odontotermes 

 obesus, India, 88; Reticulitermes, U. S., 88; 

 South America, carton nest, 88; social insects, 

 88; Tropics, 88 

 Porotermes, 116 



adamsoni, 9, 55, 73 

 qtiadricollis, 124 

 Portugal, 18, 47, 56, 146 

 Postantennal organ, 76, 107 

 Postnotal plates, 77 

 Posts, 29, 39, 128-132, 135, 137 

 Potash, 25 

 Potassium, 26, 64 



Potassium antimoniate, poison dust, 87 

 Potatoes, damage to, 43, 48 

 Powellizing treatment, boiling wood in molasses 



and sodium arsenite, Australia, 137 

 Prairie mounds, 71 

 Prairie peninsula hypothesis, 123 

 Precautions, 30, 31, 36, 37, 65, G6, 111-113 

 Predators, 15, 58, 88-91, 120 

 Predatory barrier, 52 



Preserved wood, use in homes, 21, 22, 128-132 

 Pressure impregnation, wood preservation, 130- 



136 

 Preventive, Aloe, American, clay, cow dung mix- 

 ture, 28 

 Prevention, sound, dry timber, 31 

 Primitive, lower, less specialized termites, 26, ^g, 



80, 85, 95 

 Proboscidiella, Protozoa, 93, 95, 96 

 Procornitermes, 8, 52, 78, 116, 121 

 Procryptoterines corniceps, 56 



spp., 117 

 Proctodeal feeding and food, 82, 94, 107 

 Proctibitermes goliathi, 117 



planifacies, 117 

 Progeny, 99; parthenogensis, females, 14 

 Proglyptotermes, 96, 117 

 Proneotermes delphinensis, 116 

 Prorhinotermes, 12, 25, 52, 54, 70, 125, 148 

 canalifrons, 53, 117 

 flavus, 7, 75, 85, 91, 99 

 inopinatus , 54, 57 

 rugifer, 20 

 simplex, 24 

 Protection, 26-37, 128-132, 134, 135; airplanes, 



27, 36; asphalt laminated Kraft, asphalt glue, 

 36; books, 27, 28, 31, 137; boxes, cardboard, 

 131; buildings, 36, 132-135; export trade, 135; 

 fabrics, 34, 129, 130, 135, 136; fiber-board 

 (insulation), 3, 35, 134, 136; food packages, 

 -9> 34> I3i> 133; forest products, 29; logs, 128; 

 plastics, 136; plywood, 129-132, 134, 135; 

 poles, 128, 129, 131, 132, 134, 136; posts, 

 128-132, 135; temporary, 135; timber, 28, 29, 

 31-33, 129-136; wood, 33, 128, 129, 136 

 Protective fluid, or secretion {Eutermes) , 9, 26 

 Protein, 17, 25, 26, 63, 64, 81, 94, 102 

 Protermes minuttis, 120 

 Protermitidae, 10, 76 



Prothoracic processes, vestigial, 15, 85; rudimen- 

 tary wings, 75, 76 

 Protista, parasites, 93, 94 



Protozoa, 3, 4, 13, 24, 49, 59, 60, Gd, 68, 69, 

 75, 81-85, 91-98, 118; Amitermes, 96, 97; 

 Archotcrmopsis, 91, 92, 95; Australia, 96, 97; 

 biological research, 91, 94, 96; cockroaches, 

 49. 85, 92, 95, 97; Cryptocercus, 49, 85, 92, 

 95. 97; Cryptotermes, India, 93; cytoplastic 

 inclusions, 95, 96; evolution flagellates, 49, 93, 

 95, 96; evolution termites and intestinal Pro- 

 tozoa, 60, 92, 95; food and morphology, ter- 

 mites and Protozoa, 49, 81, 91; food digestion, 

 94, 97; fossil, 65; France, 93, 94; glycogen in 

 body flagellates, 97, 98; Hawaii, 95, 96; Hetero- 

 termes indicola, 91; host specificity, 92, 93, 97; 

 host-symbiont relations, 91-93, 96; India, 92, 

 93; Japan, 96; loss, effect of, 91, 98; loss, 

 flagellates in larval, nymphal molts, 91, 94; 

 mitosis, 60, 91, 92, 94, 95; molting, sex pro- 

 duced by, 92; morphogenesis, 96; New Zea- 

 land, 97; organisms living on and in, 96; 

 oxygenation, effect of, 60, 68, 81, 91, 92, 98; 

 Pakistan, 97; Panesthia, roach, 95; parabasal 

 apparatus, 95, 96; parasitic fauna, 93, 94, 96; 

 percentage in intestines, 49, 92; phylogeny, 

 95-97; protein source, 81, 94; redwood ex- 

 tractive, effect of, 96; relative weight, 13, 95; 

 reproduction, 96; Reticiditermes, 91-96; secre- 

 tion, glucose, 98; sexual dimorphism, 92; spe- 

 cific, fauna, 92, 93, 97; starvation, effect of, 

 24, 60, 68, 81, 91, 98; symbiosis, 49, 81-83, 

 91-98; Tasmania, 95; temperature, effect on 

 oxygen toxicity, 60, 92; Tennes flavipes, 96; 

 transfaunation, 61, 93, 97; transmission, 94; 

 Trichonympha, food ingestion by pseudopodial 

 method, 94; Trichonympha, value to host, 92; 

 Turkestan, 91; "veture schizophytic," 94; vita- 

 min source, 94; wood digestion, importance in, 

 81-83, 91. 95; Zootennopsis angusticollis, 91, 

 94. 95. 97- See also Digestion; Nutrition 

 Proventriculus orthoptcroids, 76 

 Pruntis sp., 73 



Psammotermes, 13, 18, 22, 58 

 hybostoma, 7, 54, 56, 94 

 voeltzl{owi, 51 

 Pselaphid, Australia, with Coptotermes raffrayi, 



termitophile, 126 

 Pseudacanthotermes, 37 

 militaris, 58 

 spiniger, 14, 99 



