no. 3 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TERMITES I955-60: SUBJECTS — SNYDER 



termes brevis. Nature integument and 

 natural environment factors.) 



Cufodontis, G., 1955, 501-518. (Significance 

 of termites for the understanding of the 

 African savanna vegetation.) 



Ebeling, W., 1959a, pp. 24-25, 46-47. (U.S., 

 California.) 



Ebeling, W., and Pence, R. J., 1957, pp. 690- 

 692. (Relation of particle size to penetra- 

 tion of Reticulitermes hesperus through 

 barriers of sand or cinders.) 



Eidmann, H., 1941, pp. 385, 391, 431, 433, 

 440, 474. (General.) 



Emerson, A. E., 1958, in Weyer, E. M., Jr. 

 (Ed.), 1958, pp. 2798-2807. (Habits, dam- 

 age, control.) 

 1959a, pp. 6-7. (Biology, fossils, predators, 

 termitophiles.) 



Ernst, E., i960, pp. 203-206. (Africa, alien 

 termite colonies in Cubitermes nests.) 



Esaki, T., 1956, pp. 86-88. (Notes on Hodo- 

 termopsis japonica.) 



Esaki, T., Hori, H., and Yasumatsu, K., 

 1938, pp. 30-32. (Illustrations and descrip- 

 tive notes on Japanese termites.) 



Fare, P., 1959, pp. 4, 13, 14, 35, 82-91, 109, 

 134, 157. (Desert termites depth 100 ft., 

 1 out of 1,000 survives flight, temperature 

 in mound cooler in summer and warmer 

 in winter than outside, building of tubes 

 in Tropics (Africa), 30 mounds to acre, 

 more than 5,000 tons of soil moved on 

 each acre, 300 species intestinal protozoa 

 identified, inhibition theory caste de- 

 termination.) 



Garrison, W. B., 1954, pp. 73-76. (General 

 habits, damage.) 



Gay, F. J., 1955, pp. 58-59. (Occurrence of 

 functional neoteinics in Coptotermes 

 lacteus.) 



Gay, F. J., Greaves, T., Holdaway, F. G., 

 and Wetherly, A. H., 1955, pp. 1-60. 

 (Australia.) 

 i960, pp. 228-231. (Australia, discusses 

 probable origin; caste system; subter- 

 ranean chambers; references to a few spe- 

 cies; Nasutitermes jumigatus; Copto- 

 termes lacteus, illus.) 



Giraldi, G., 1955, pp. 487-498. (Italy, Venice, 

 Reticulitermes lucifugus.) 



Gosswald, K., and Kloft, W., 1958, pp. 743- 

 745. (Radioactive isotopes in the study 

 of colony life of insects.) 



Grasse, P. P., 1958, pp. 189-200. (Brazil, Sao 

 Paulo, Cornitermes cumulans, queen 

 moves about in nest.) 



Grasse, P. P., and Noirot, C., 1955, pp. 213- 

 219. (Foundation of new societies by 



Bellicositermes natalensis on Ivory Coast, 

 imaginal founder couple dig an under- 

 ground cavity copularium in which first 

 brood is tended, take no food. First small 

 workers dig passageways to surface where 

 under covered passageways eat wood, 

 first big workers appear soon after. In 

 one night inside copularium workers 

 construct an even egg-shaped dwelling 

 place, first fungus bed, at once fertile is 

 erected herein, heaps of sawdust used as 

 food reserves laid outside. Homologies 

 drawn between young nest and adult 

 termitarium.) 



1958, pp. 1 789-1 795. (The society of Calo- 

 termes flavicollis and its foundation to 

 the first swarm.) 



x 959> PP- 365-372. (Evolution of symbiosis 

 in Blattopteroidea, particularly Isoptera. 

 Double symbiosis occurred in common 

 ancestor blattids and termites, blattids 

 only retained bacteriocytes (except Cryp- 

 tocercus), primitive termites, (except 

 Mastotermes) the flagellates. Termitidae 

 have lost flagellates but have a rich and 

 complex bacterial flora, some break down 

 cellulose. Protozoa constantly associated 

 with certain termites (xylophagous 

 amoebae), humus-feeder ciliates, Termi- 

 tophrya). Association between fungus- 

 growing termites and mushrooms 

 (Termitomyces.) ) 



Grzimek, B., 1956, pp. 146-159. (The vast 

 cities of the tropical bush.) 



Harris, W. V., 1955, pp. 62-72. (Termites 

 and the soil.) 

 1955c, pp. 160-166. (As ecological factors.) 

 1956, pp. 261-268. (Mound building by 



Macrotermes E. Africa.) 

 I958d, pp. 435-439. (Colony formation by 

 winged, part of an existing colony, migra- 

 tion of reproductives.) 



Herfs, A., 1955, In Schmidt, H. (Ed.), 1955b, 

 pp. 121-130. (Swarming and colony for- 

 mation.) 

 1955a, pp. 481-487. (New research results.) 



Heslop-Harrison, G., 1958, pp. 59-79. (Origin 

 and function of pupal stadia in holome- 

 tabolous insects, conception primitive in- 

 sect life cycle, including Isoptera.) 



Hickin, N. E., 1954, pp. 1-84. (Woodworm, 

 biology and control.) 



1959, p. 273. (Isoptera, do not secrete cellu- 

 lase, symbiosis with intestinal protozoa.) 



Hrdy, I., In press. (Czechoslovakia, contribu- 

 tion to the knowledge of the European 

 species of Reticulitermes!) 



