WHOLE VOL. 



INDEX 



301 



Subulitermes, 125 



Succession, association by, 11 



Sugarcane, damage to, control, 27, 33, 34, 37, 



43-49 

 Sulfa drugs, 3 

 Sulfates, 26, 64 

 Sulfur, 132, 134 

 Sulfur anhydride, no 

 Sultan in harem, 15 

 Sumatra, 12, 54, 56, 78, 79, 141, 142 

 Sunda Island, 20 

 Superorganism, colony as, 6, 8, 88, 115; human 



body comparable to, 115; sponge comparable, 



115 



Supplementary reproductlves, 13. See also Neo- 



teinic 

 Surinam, 19, 144 



Survey, U.S., 1917, 143; California, 1953, 42 

 Survival, 6, 16, 24, 28, 46, 60, 91 

 Suwarro Island, 46 

 Swallows, predators, 90 



Swarm, sexes separately, 59, 62. See also Flight 

 "Swarmers," infestation by flying subterranean 



termites, no ground contact, 8, 19, 30 

 Swarming. See Flight 

 Swift, lizard, sagebrush, 90 

 Symbiosis, 3-5, 13, 49, 50, 60, 66, 68, 81-83, 86, 



88, 91-98, 118-127 

 Symphily, 126, 127 

 Synacanthotermes zanzibarensis, 67 

 Synonymy, 64, 116, 117 

 Syntermes, 18, 30, 63, 88, 119, 125 



grandis, 25 



insidians, 45 



molestus, 45, 78 



sp. .'', 124 

 Syrmocertts sp.. Col. Psel., termitophile, 119 



Tachinid fly larva, predator, 89 



Tachys termiticola, Coleoptera, 88 



Tanalith, wood preservative, 129-131, 134 



Tananarive, 55 



Tandem behavior, mechanics of, 4 



Tar(s), 34, 44; dehydrated, repellent, 109, 112; 

 tar acids, 129, 132; water-gas, 131; wood, 132 



Tasmania, 95, 122 



Taxes, tax status of loss due to termites, 38 



Taxonomy, fossil, 117, 118; living, 25, 116, 117, 

 138; Protozoa, 97 



Tea bushes, damage to, 27, 31, 32, 43-46, 48 



Teak, trees, damage to, 13, 32, 43, 44, 46, 47, 

 103; wood, resistance, 40, 100-103 



Tectoquinone, extractive, 26, 103, 138 



Telephone, detection by, 74 



Temperature, 7, 60, 67, 68, 71, 75, 81, 88, 107, 

 118, 119; Anacanthotermes ochraceus nests, 7; 

 Etitermes exitiosus mound, 71, 88, 118; cooling 

 to remove odor, 107; effects on colony, 118, 

 119; on oxygen toxicity, 60, 92, 98; on Pro- 

 tozoa, 92, 118; Coptotermes jormosaniis, dis- 

 tribution of in relation to, 118; Cryptotermes 

 brevis, heat to control in Florida, 119; fungus 

 growers, nest, 67-69, 71, 75, 80, 99, 118, 119; 

 favorable, 118, 119; freezing and thawing, 



Termopsis, 118; Hawaii, 118, 119; isotherm 

 limits, distribution, 118; lethal, 118, 119; nests, 

 7, 118, 119; shelter tubes, 71; Retictditermes 

 colony, 118, 119; Termes baditis, South Africa, 

 118; T. bellicostis, Sudan, nests, 118; U.S., 

 118, 119; Zootermopsis, 118, 119 

 Tennessee, 28, 40 

 Tentorium, 76 

 Tentiirostritertnes, 14, 25 



tentnrostris, 14, 20 

 Termes, 4, 13, 19, 24, 46-49, 54, 55, 58, 62, 68, 

 69, 80, 84, 86, 90 



angttstattis, 89 



ail strait's, 38 



badius, n8 



bellicostis, 9, 17, 47, 56, 118 



bellicostis, var. tnozambica, 85 



capensis, 19, 57 



carbotiaritis, 8, 12, 27, 31, 45, 54, 67, 79 



ceylonictts, 7, 75 



classictis, 16, 48 



coltimnarisi=Amitermes foreli, 78 



ctimtdatis ?, 48 



destructor ?, 15 



dives, 41 



fatale, jatalis, 20, 43, 55 



flauicolle, 64, 116 



flavipes, 8, 9, 11-13, 16-19, 39-4i> 43) 45-48, 

 52, 54-57, 62, 75, 84, 88-90, 93, 96, 97, 

 108, 125 



formosantiS, 15, 44, 48, 53 



jrontaUsz=: flavipes, 18, 41, 47, 56, 89 



gestroi, 19, 34, 47 



gih'tis, 5, II, 20, 56, 68, 106, 107, III 



horni, 44, 75 



javanictis, 8, 122 



lacteus, 43 



latericitts, 26, 37, 47, 126 



lighti, 117 



Iticiftigus (luciftigum) , 11, 13, 14, 16, 18, 

 24, 38, 53, 56, 59-61, 76, 89, 102, 116 



malayantis, 125 



medioctdatiis, 116 



monodon, var. lu'jana, 81 



morio, 48, 116 



natalensis 7, 26, 33, 37, 47, 119 



obesus, 48, 126 



obsciiriceps, 16, 62, 68, 75, 123 



obsctirtim, 116 



opacus, 80 



redemanni, 50, 59, 68, 69, 75-77, 106 



rippertii, 15, 26, 55 



spinostis, 27 



striinJ{i, I'j 



stdphtiretis, 12 



taprobanes, 6, 8, 36, 43, 45, 48, 137 



tenuis, 27, 40, 55 



tenuis ?, 15, 39, 73 



trinervitis , 15, 26, 55, 107 



tubicola, 119 



tubiformans, 7, 18 



unidentatiis, 126 



vulgaris, 26, 37, 44, 48, 126 



winifredae, 117 

 Terminator crystals, soil poison, 34, 37 



