56 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FORESTS. 
these happened to be on the same side.’ He also says, “I have re- 
peatedly taken a pair at swarming time and bred the eggs from them, 
but have never got them to colony size,” and that “* * * in 
stating that I found only three queens, I had reference to the fully 
developed ones. On Staten Island, in company with Mr. W. T. 
Davis, I came across a small log that had eight separate cells with a 
king and queen in each. A few had three and one four (individuals). 
They had eggs but no young. Some had perfect antennz and others 
had segments missing.’ He states: “One small colony that I kept 
alive several years that had only about two or three dozen workers 
swarmed each year, a few individuals only, but I broke up and exam- 
ined each fragment of wood and sifted the ground several times but 
never found a trace of either kind of queen; the whole colony was con- 
tained in a gallon jar. Other colonies that had thousands of workers, 
which I kept alive about 22 months from time of collecting, never 
swarmed or had young, but finally died of old age, I presume. They 
got smaller and seemed to have more fat in their makeup.” Mr. 
Joutel also says, “Light, I found, was not objected to by termites, 
unless it was too strong, as long as they felt that they were covered, 
that is, they worked under cover, not necessarily in the dark.” This 
is true, but even in metal termitariums with sliding, thick, red glass 
covers, termites, while at first they actively wandered about on the 
surface of the earth, and were apparently unaffected, soon sought 
cover under decaying pieces of wood or jn the earth. 
The Rev. F. L. Odenbach, S. J., has, sce 1895, made observations 
on the habits of Leucotermes flavipes im artificial colonies. He has 
roughly sketched in his notes two types of neoteinic queens that he 
has found. The neoteinic kings he describes as being compressed 
laterally, and therefore seeming to have a ridged back. One neoteinic 
queen, with short wing pads, that he found pairing was 10 milliime- 
ters in length and had a markedly distended abdomen. Another 
gravid queen that he figures is apparently adapted from a nymph of 
the first form, since long, well-developed wing pads are present. The 
abdomen is distended and the abdominal tergites are separated. He 
states: 
These reproductive forms were from a very large nest I took up in South Brooklyn, 
near Cleveland, Ohio, in the fall of 1895. 
I placed the termites in a large glass globe. In September, 1897, I discovered a 
large mass of eggs from which were developed all the different nymph forms known to 
me, true winged males and females also in large numbers. These latter chased about 
the nest in such wild disorder for a few days that the workers fell upon them and de- 
stroyed them to the very last one. It reminded me of the slaughter of drones in a 
beehive. At the time it seemed to me that the wild orgies, [?] which as a rule occur 
outside of the nest in midair, disconcerted the workers and soldiers who did the next 
best thing to restore order and quiet in their household. 
From the above large nest I caused a colony to migrate into a Lubbock nest, and 
in this nest I found the different neoteinic reproductive forms. First, the nymph 
