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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 130 



Pseudodevescovina, polymastigote protozoan, 94, 



96; P. ramosa, 96 

 Pseudoergates, 23 

 Pseudo-flight, 18, 63 

 Pseudotrichomonas pristina, Protozoa, 92 

 Pseudotrichonympha sertaneia, 93 

 Psocid, VuUurops termitorum , with Amitermes 



sp., Peru, termitophile, 125 

 Ptiliidae, Trichopterygidae, termitophiles, 121 

 Ptochomyia sp., phorid with Macrotennes natal- 



ensis, termitophile, 120 

 Puerto Rico, Porto Rico, 11, 20, 21, 28, 31, 34, 36, 



37, 41-43, 46, 51, 53, 58, 66, 87, 90, 102, 103, 



137. 138, 144, 145 

 Ptiliciphora termittim , termitophile, 124 

 Pyrenees, 7 

 Pyrsonympha, polymastigote protozoan, 92, 97 



gr asset, 92 



vertens, 94 



Quasitermes, 116 

 caprinus, 116 



Queens, females, 6, 7, 9-15, 19, 22, 24, 27, 75-77, 

 82, 91, 116, 120, 121; brain of colony, 15, 115; 

 queen cell, 80, 8i; destroying or removal as 

 control, 6, 7, 29, 32-34, iii; eaten alive, medi- 

 cinal purpose, 63, 64, 74; number, 6, 9, 12, 

 I3> I5> I7> 20, 80; physogastric, 16, 61, 77; 

 primary substitute, same colony, 20; ratio to 

 males, 6, 12, 15; to workers, 6; sizes, 6, 7, 11, 

 12, 15, 20; supplementary or substitute, neo- 

 teinic, ergatoid, secondary, 6, 7, 9, 12-15, i?) 

 18, 20, 22-24, 32; transplanting, 16, 61; true, 

 II, 12, 17, 18, 22 



Quiescent stages, 18, 19, 25, 60 



Races or subspecies, 9, 18, 59, 60 



Racket, control, 30, 98 



Rain, 11, 59, 62, 63, 106 



Rain-forests, continental, 12, 52, 53, 148 



Ratio soldiers to workers or nymphs, 5, 6, 14, 18, 

 22 



Real-estate clearances, 28 



Rearing, breeding, 5, 10, 14, 18, 25, 60, 61, 64, 

 92, 97, 99, 121, 122; battery jars, 61, 99; cages. 

 5, 61, 99; Ceylon, 99; culture chambers, 99; 

 England, 99; Erienmeyer flasks, 99; glass plates, 

 99; glass vials, 10, 99; Kalotermcs, block wood, 

 99; Reticulitermes, jars, tins, 99; sawdust, agar, 

 jars, 99; shell vials, 99; technique, 14, 60, 61, 

 99; termitaria, artificial, 99; outdoors, 61, 99; 

 test tubes, 99; U. S., 99; without Protozoa of 

 caecum, 98 



Records, treating inaccurate due to moisture in 

 wood, 129 



"Red ring," disease coconut palm, 50 



Reduviidae, termitophile, 122 



Redwood, California, resistant wood, 100-102: 

 sapwood damages by Coplotermes, Hawaii, 38 



Refaunation, protozoan, 60, 91, 92 



Reflexes, 62 



Regeneration, 77, 100 



Regression, 14, 24, 25, 60 



Regulation. See Legislation 



Reichenbachia, Pseiaph., Guerrero, termitophile, 

 123 



Relationships, ants to termites, 91; host, 60, 96 



Repartition, blood lymph elements, 37 



Repellents, 28, 29, 44, loi, 109-112, 115, 135, 

 137; benzene hexachloride, 115, 137; cinnamon, 

 28; cloves, 28; coal-tar kerosene emulsion, 112; 

 copper compounds, 137; copper pentachloro- 

 phenate, 137; dehydrated tar, 109, 112; DDT, 

 it5> 137; kerosene oil, 113, lime, 112, orris 

 root, 28; paradichlorobenzcne, log-iii; pen- 

 tachlorophcnol, 137; petroleum emulsions, 115; 

 pepper, 28; phenol, 137; salt, 112; sodium 

 arsenite, 113; spray, 112. See also Soil poisons, 

 etc. 



Reproduction, 14, 15, 92 



Reproductive organs. See Genitalia 



Reproductives, 5, 6, 9-15, 17-19, 22-25, 32, 37> 

 61, 99, 125; apterous, neoteinic, 10, 12, 14, 

 25, 125; brachypterous, neoteinic, 12, 14, 18, 

 20, 25, 107; change, 10, 16; colonizing, 18; 

 macropterous, 9, 37, 69; primary pair, 15, 22, 

 25, 37; primary, substitute, in same colony, 20, 

 22; replacement, 11, 24 



Reptiles, predators, 89, 90; termitophiles, 120-122 



Research, 36 



Resin, resistance factor, 103 



Resistance, biological methods of testing, 134; 

 natural, factors in woods, 103; to creosote in- 

 jection, 134, 135, 137; tests, Mississippi, 100; 

 Northern Rhodesia, loi, 132; tropical woods, 



100, 103; resistant properties of woods, 26, 

 101-103 



Resistant woods, 26-29, 31, 32, 34, 35, 37, 100- 

 103, 129, 131, 132, 134, 137; Acapu-Amazon, 

 31, 100; Australia, 100-102; British Guiana, 

 loi, 102; Ceylon, 102, 103; Colombia, 103; 

 Cuba, 101; Dutch East Indies, loi; Formosa, 

 loi, 102; France, loi; Georgia, U.S., 137; 

 German East Africa, 103; Idaho, 102; India, 

 102; Indo-China, 100; Japan, 102; Java, 102; 

 lists, 100, loi, 103, 129, 131, 132; Malaya, 



101, 102, 132; Mosquito Coast, C. A., loi; 

 New South Wales, 100; New York, 39; Philip- 

 pines, 100, loi; Puerto Rico, 102, 103; Rho- 

 desia, 100-102; Transvaal, 101; Trinidad, 100, 

 loi; U. S., Panama, 103; world, 100, 103 



Respiration, 60, 68, 69, 76 



Respiratory, needs, 6, 68, 69, 76; quotient, 61, 



68-69, 98 

 Retention preservative, 132 



Reticulitermes, 3, 9, 10, 14-16, 18, 19, 22-25, 29, 

 30, 34. 37-39, 42, 51-53, 56-58, 60-63, 69, 71, 

 75, 76, 82-85, 88, 91-94, 99, 106, 118, 119, 

 125, 135, 148 



areiiincola, 19, 53, 72 

 clypeatus, 117 



ilavipes, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 16, 19, 25, 30, 33, 

 37, 38-43, 47-53, 57. 58, 61, 62, 69, 72. 

 73, 75, 84, 88, 91, 96, III, 117, 118, 143 

 flavipes var. santonensis , 9, 116 

 hageni, 54, 91 



hesperus, 6, 16, 31, 32, 41, 42, 45, 47, 53, 

 56, 57, 61, 62, 66, 69, 78, 82, 91, 95, 97 



