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mounted and unmounted, newspaper files and other material. The 
white ants fairly riddled the blocks upon which the electrotypes 
were mounted and ran galleries through files of back publications, 
thus causing heavy losses. 
These insects can be easily recognized as white, wingless, ant- 
like forms. They are only seen, as a rule, when material in which 
they are boring has been disturbed as in the above mentioned 

Ry 
LFic. 19 Termes flavipes: a, queen; b, young of winged female; 
¢, worker; d, soldier, all enlarged. (After,Marlatt, U. S. Dep’t Agric. 
LDiv. Ent. Bul. 4. n.s. 1896) 

instance. This form remains active throughout the year in build- 
ings that are kept warm during the winter. The ants excavate 
numerous irregular galleries through wood, paper and almost any 
material except stone or metal. They are communistic in habit and 
with a social organization similar to that of the honey bee. The only 
satisfactory method of preventing injury in vaults and similar 
places is first to thoroughly clean the infested chamber or chambers 
