62 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FORESTS. 
and the workers and soldiers were very solicitous. It is evident that - 
the queen is fed on food prepared by the workers, since her abdomen 
became markedly shrunken when she was isolated. 
On August 7, 1913, another true royal couple of this species was 
found near Chain Bridge, Va., in the interior ofa decayed yellow 
poplar (tulip tree) log lying on the ground. The colony was small 
and the abdomen of the queen was not fully distended, being more 
flat than oblong. (Pl. XVI, ), king.) 
On August 15, 1913, at Falls Church, a young neoteinic ‘repro- 
ductive form? (female) of virginicus was found in an experimental 
stake of decaying yellow pine which had been set in the ground a 
year previous. The queen (?) was of a dirty yellow color with four 
grayish-black longitudinal markings on the epicranium, and grayish- 
black markings between the coxe and mesothoracic and metathoracic 
tergites. The length was 4.5 millimeters. The segments to the 
antenne were mutilated, one antenna having 11 segments. (PI. 
XIV, a.) There was no pigmentation to the compound eyes. 
On September 17, 1913, near Chain Bridge, Va., numerous nymphs 
of the second form of flavipes of mature size were found associated 
with nymphs of the first form in the sound heartwood of a decaying 
black locust stump. The nymphs of the first form had well-de- 
veloped wing pads. 
On November 3, 1913, at Falls Church, nymphs of the second form 
of flavipes were found associated with those of the first form in the 
sound wood of a decayed oak stump near the ground. Young were 
present in this colony. 
In 1914, on April 17, the first fully developed nymphs of the second 
form of Leucotermes flavipes were found in colonies at Falls Church, 
Va. 
A large true queen of flavipes was found in a decayed oak stump 
about 5 feet high on July 17, 1914, at Falls Church. The tree had 
been dead for at least three to four years, and the stump was about 14 
inches in diameter and still had the bark on. This queen, which was 
oblong but somewhat quadrate—4 millimeters in width—was 144 
millimeters in length (measured while alive *), and in color had a 
slight tinge of greenish-yellow or opaqueness. The antenne had seg- 
ments missing. The colony was very large. Numerous eggs were 
present in the galleries in the decayed wood, and the queen was 
found in an elliptical cell about 2 inches in the wood from the exte- 
rior; the sides of the cell were cleanly eaten out. The royal cell was 
situated about 14 feet above the surface of the ground. The male 
was not found. 

a The abdomens of queens become further elongated during the killing and fixing 
process, and hence in photographs of preserved specimens there is an apparent loss 
in width. 
