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We come to India, where, in the southern provinces, they are very 

 numerous and destructive, though there does not seem to be a great 

 number of different species. The common species in Ceylon is Termes 

 taprobanes, where it does an immense amount of damage ; it has a wide 

 range across to Borneo, Sumatra, and Java. 



Haviland, in his " Observations on Termites: with descriptions of New 

 Species," published in the Journal of the Linnean Society, 1889, lists and 

 describes forty-six new species from the Malay Peninsula and Borneo, the 

 latter being particularly rich in species. 



Peel gives a general account in " Nature," 1882, of the termites of 

 Assam, and Romanis notes those of Rangoon. 



In the zoology of the Novara Expedition, Brauer described two species 

 from the Nicobar Islands, and Forbes records them in his " Naturalist's 

 Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, 1885," as being common in the 

 Cocos (or Keeling) Islands, where he saj^s they were introduced from the 

 mainland. 



In the Phillipine Islands, though few species have been described, they 

 are evidently numerous, for Seoane has given a very interesting account, 

 in the "Entomological Society of Belgium, 1879," of the destruction of a 

 Spanish man-of-war by Termes dives while lying in the port of Ferrol. 



Doderlein has described a species from Japan, and according to Dr. 

 Knower, the American, Terines ■jiavi'pes has l)een introduced and is firmly 

 established in that country. I have no records of described species from 

 New Gruinea, l)nt D'Albertis noter-i them as common on Yule Island. No 

 one seems to have collected termites on the islands of the Pacific; but 

 among collections from the New Hebrides, I have had several winged forms 

 of an undetermined Calotermes, and Calotermes longipennis from the 

 New Hebrides. In the Insect Fauna of Funufuti (" Memoirs," Australian 

 Museum, Part II), Rainbow notes an introdiiced species on that island. 



In the Hawaiian Islands Blackburn collected two species, both introduced 

 from America, and Perkins, ^n the Fauna Hawaiiensis, says that Galo- 

 te.rmes castajieus is found in the heart of large forest trees, and Caloterme-'' 

 niarginipennis is the one destructive to wooden buildings in Honolulu. 



As might be expected, South America is rich in termites, and as so 

 many capable naturalists have spent years collecting in the tropical forests, 

 the fauna is well known. Hagen listed twenty-seven species, some of 

 which had been collected and described by Walter Bates on the Amazon. 

 Dr. Fritz Miiller has contributed largely to our knowledge of the termites 

 found in the Santa Catherina district, in working out their life histories. 



Recently Dr. Silvestri has monographed the South American termites, 

 classifying the species previously described by Messrs. Bates, Hagen, 

 Miiller, Wasmann, and Kollar, and adding about thirty new speciOvS, 

 which brings the South American fauna up to about ninety. 



They are well-known pests in most of the West Indies; Cuba has several 

 species. Hubbard has described the habits of those of Jamaica, of which 

 the tree-nest building species is the most common {Eutermes ripperti). 



