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I. Damage to chestnut telephone and telegraph poles by wood-boring in- Page. 
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The chestnut telephone-pole borer (Parandra brunnea Fab.).....----- 3 
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Favorable and unfavorable conditions for destructive work.......- 6 
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Publications on wood preservation and statistics on poles. ......----- 11 
II. Biology of the termites of the eastern United States, with preventive and 
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The different castes—polymorphism..............---.-2.-2-2+----4.-- 27 
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The metamorphosis—caste differentiation...............--------- 33 
Progressive development of nymphs...............-------------- 36 
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Situation of the different forms in the nest. ................-.--+---- 47 
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Copulation and the rate of egg laying. ........--.-.---.-------6. 50 
