88 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [FEB. 4, 
The systems of covered galleries of the Hutermes are very ex- 
tensive, being conspicuous upon many of the tallest trees in the 
forest. A main gallery is constructed from the base of the tree, 
running up the trunk to the branches, and then auxiliary gal- 
leries on the under side of all the boughs, large and small (Fig. 
1). 
rhe Hutermes live in large communities, and build upon 
small trees a nearly globular nest from six to twenty inches in 
diameter. In larger trees, the shape varies. In the central por- 
tion of the nest is the queen’s cell, in which from one to ten 
Fic. 1.—Nests of Hutermes. In the centre a palm-tree, with main or parent nest, and 
two galleries leading to the ground: on either side, supplementary nests. The main nest 
contains several queens; the others have none, but abound in eggs and young. 
mature queens have been found. ‘Twenty queens, not fully 
grown, were found in one instance in a single cell. 
From the nests the covered galleries of three-eighths to three 
quarters of an inch wide, and nearly semi-circular, extend often 
one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet to some source of 
food-supplies,—as buildings, cars, ete. (Fig. 2). 
The members of their communities consist of workers, 
soldiers with beaks (nasuti),—the former many times the most 
numerous,—and a queen or queens. In the spring there are 
large quantities of males and females, which have eyes and wings, 
