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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. 130 



Urea, 131; urea resin, 130 



Urea-formaldehyde, resin, 129 



Uropoda {UroohovcUa) samoae, mite, Samoa, 

 termitophile, 122 



Uses, in industry, arts, and religion, 63, 64, 80, 

 127, 128; chewing of clay from nests, Africa, 

 127; floors of native huts, nest material, 127; 

 in manufactures. Natal, 127; for manure, 127; 

 of nests, 63, 74, 127; oil from grilled termites 

 for soap, 64, 128; as oracles, Sudan, 63, 127; 

 polish gems, nest material, Ceylon, 127; puri- 

 fication widow, Amazon, 127; tennis courts, 

 mound brown secretion, Australia, 127; ditto, 

 nest material, Panama, 127 



Utah, 32, 56, 143 



Utility poles, treated, California, 129 



Vacuum process, wood preservation, 135 



Vahlf{ampfia beltraiii, Protozoa, 93 



Vassuntinga teimitophila, Diplopoda, termitophile, 



125 

 Vedas, Rig, i, 63 

 Vegetation, living, damage to 43-49; soil poisons, 



benzene hexachloride, chlordane, and DDT 



emulsions not injurious to, 113 

 Vegetation, ecology, 14, 52, 70, 71, 78, 81 

 Veldt, Africa, 29, 33, 44, 47, 70, 71 

 Velocitermes beebei, 122 

 Veneer, 131, 134 

 Venezuela, 40, 43, 55, 103, 144 

 Veneration mounds. So. Africa, 63 

 Ventricle chyliferous, 76 

 Vibration, 26-27, 39) 42, 49 

 Vibrio, bacteria, 3 

 Vibrios, 3 



Vineyards, damage to, control, 30, 45, 47 

 Virgin Islands, 21 



Virginia, 21, 56, 61, 119, 128, 129, 136, 142, 143 

 Virus, 84 



"Virus," an arsenical, 27, 84 

 Viscosity and penetration, 129, 131 

 Vitamins, 21, 61, 81-83, 90, 94 

 Vitamin T, 23, 61, 81-83, 9° 

 Volvaria, fungus, 11, 67; V. etirhiza, 68 

 Vtdttirops tcrmitorum , psocid termitophile, 125, 



126 



W 



Wallaba, 56, 103 



Wallboard, poison, 3, 35, 134, 136 



Wall void treatment, 31 



War, ants and termites, 7, 89; wartime control, 

 36 



Washington, 45, 64, 117, 118, 143 



Wasps, 6, 89 



Water, 25; absorption, 60, 68, 70, 81; deposition 

 free water, prevented, 71, 75; elimination, 60, 

 68, 81; Tenyiopsis tolerant to, 118; transporta- 

 tion, 69, 71, 75 



Water-borne preservatives, 133, 134 



Water-gas tar, 131 



Water leak, infestation by subterranean termites, 

 8, 19, 30 



Water table, 128 



Wax, 29, 131 



'Weight(s), increase, 82, 83; loss, 82, 83; popula- 

 tion, nest, 88; Zootermopsis and Protozoa, rela- 

 tive, 13, 95 



West Indies, 35, 39, 72, 85, 89, 100-103, no, 144 



West Virginia, in 



Wheat, damage to, 45, 47-49 



White ants, ants, termites, Isoptera, i, 7, 18, 31, 

 44, 64, 79, 80, 95, 98, 115, 126, 135, 136 



Windward Islands, 15, 55, 144 



Wing pads, buds, 15, 20, 22, 24, 25, 77 



Wing venation, 76, 77 



Winged, compared with Embiidae, 76. See also 

 Alate 



Wings, 26, 37, 62, 76 



Winter habitat, ii8, 119 



Wisconsin, 130 



Wolman salts, Tanalith, 129-131, 134 



Wolmanized lumber, 128 



Wood-eating termites, 33, 82 



Wood flour western red cedar, water treated, 136 



"Wood lice," 74 



Wood nutrition, 3, 66, 81-83 



Wood preservation, poisons for fabrics and fiber- 

 boards, insulation, etc., bibliography, 130; chem- 

 ical treatment, 3, 21, 27, 29-36, 39, 40, 73, 74, 

 128-140; Federal specifications, 128, 129; ef- 

 fectiveness of preservatives, 128-140; five-retard- 

 ing, 130; historical, 133, 135; new process, 135; 

 prevention of reinfestation after, 35, 136; pro- 

 phylactic action of, 135; as soil poisons, 114, 

 136; proprietary preservatives, 135; statistics, 

 129, 135-137; treatment of pulp products, 136 



Woods, economic Tropics, 65 



Wood tars, 132 



Woody constituents, 25 



Worker, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 24, 25, 37, 59, 60, 

 70, 71, 75, 77, 84, 85, 87-89, 94, 115, 117, 120, 

 121; defense of colony, 16, 62; origin of, 8, 

 60; significance of, 11 



Workerlike form, 25, 59-60 



World, 9, 12, 42, 43, 52-54, 57> 60, 79, 82, 86, 

 100, 118, 148; catalog, 52, 57; control, 42; 

 damage, 42, 43; distribution, 52; food, 82; 

 monographs, 86, 148; resistant woods, 100, 103 



X Y Z 



X-ray, 49, 60, 61. See also Detection; Experi- 

 mentation 



Xenogaster, Staph. Col., termitophile, 126, 127 



Xenonympha, Protozoa, 92 



Xylaria, fungus, 15, 68; X. nigriceps, 68; X., 

 toiriibioides, 68 



Yeasts, 50, 81, 83, 98 



Ypsistocertis manni, Bracon., Hymen., termit- 

 ophiles ?, 120 



Ziaelas formosanus, Rhysopaussidae, Formosa, ter- 

 mitophile, 122 



Zinc arsenitc, 132 



