OATALOGTJE OF ISOPTBBA. 



CATALOGUE OF ISOPTERA (TERMITES) RECORDED 

 FROM CEYLON. 



By E. Ernest Green, E.E.S., F.Z.S. 



IN the following annotated list of the Termites of Ceylon, 

 the data must not be taken as complete. It is issued, in 

 its imperfection, as a spur to further study. The localities 

 mentioned are such as have been recorded in the works of the 

 several authors who have Avritten on the subject, or as have 

 come under the observation of the compiler of the catalogue. 

 Comparatively little attention has been given to this interesting 

 Order of insects in Ceylon, and collections have been gathered 

 in a few locahties only. With more general study it will 

 certainly be found that the range and habitat of the several 

 species is more extended than has here been noted. The 

 present catalogue contains the names of forty-four separate 

 species. Some of these will probably disappear as synonyms ; 

 but their place will be more than taken by additional species 

 that will surely be discovered. Most of our knowledge of the 

 habits of the Termites of Ceylon is due to the researches of 

 W. Horn, Doflein, Bugnion, and Escherich (especially the two 

 last), who have visited the Island at various times. Konig, 

 Hagen, Haviland, Wasmann, Desneux, and Holmgren have 

 written on the subject, working on material supplied by the 

 actual collectors. 



Earn. Protermitid.^!, Holmgren. 



Gen. Calotermes , Hagen. 



C. militaris, Desneux, 



" Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg.," XLVIII., p. 146 (1904). 



In stems of hving tea bushes. Throughout the tea districts 

 of the Central Province. Collected also in the Ratnapura 

 District. 



