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traveller, Smeathman, at the end of the last century, in Southern 

 Africa. His account of them is the most exact and most complete 



Fig. 381. Termes lueifugus. Male (A), Worker ( B), Soldier (C), magnified. 

 Fecundated female, natural size, laying (D D D D). 



which we have of these insects.* The largest of the species 

 observed is the Termes bellicosus. The workers are a fifth of an 



* " Some Account of the Termites," &c., in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. 

 Ixxi., 1781. 



