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VOL. I43 



DETECTION 



Anonymous, 1959, pp. 17-19. (U.S.) 

 Casimir, M., 1957, pp. 68-78. (Australia.) 

 Gunderson, H., 1957, pp. 1-8. (U.S., Iowa.) 

 Harris, W. V., 1958, pp. 161-166. (East Africa, 



drywood termites, Cryptotermes.) 

 Hobbs, K. R., 196 1, pp. 14, 16, 18. (U.S., a key 

 to help identify wood-destroying organ- 

 isms. Subterranean termites: earth in 

 galleries in wood; drywood termites: 

 small conical pellets with longitudinal 

 riflings; damp wood termites: larger 

 pellets.) 



Mason, N. P., 1958, p. 18. (U.S., by putty- 

 colored tubes.) 



New South Wales Dept. Agric, Entomo- 

 logical Branch, 1958, pp. 1-19. (Aus- 

 tralia.) 



Pepper, J. O., and Gesell, S. G., 1959, pp. 

 1-8. (U.S., Pennsylvania, detection and 

 control.) 



Simeone, J. B., 1956, pp. 1-3. (U.S., New 

 York State, tubes, flight, damage.) 



DIGESTION 



Grasse, P. P., 1959a, pp. 385-389. (Africa, a 

 new type of symbiosis, digestion by 

 fungus-growing termites, through col- 

 laboration bacteria, illustrates strata of 

 mastigated wood on which fungi grow, 

 Macrotermitinae.) 



Lasker, R., 1959, in Ray, 1959, pp. 348-355. 

 (Reviews studies of symbiosis among 

 termites by Oshima, 1919, Cleveland, 

 1924, 1925, 1928, Trager, 1932, and Hun- 

 gate, 1946.) 



Leopold, B., 1952, p. 784. (Digestion Douglas- 

 fir wood by Cryptotermes brevis takes a 

 few hours.) 



McBee, R. H., 1959, in Ray (Ed.), 1959, pp. 

 342-347. (Termite cellulase, Cleveland 

 found intestinal protozoa in species of 

 Kalotermitidae, Rhinotermitidae, and 

 M.nstotermitidae, in Termitidae no pro- 



tozoa except in 3 wood-feeding species. 

 Most flagellates symbionts. Not all 

 protozoa beneficial. Trichonympha most 

 effective in wood digesting. A few cellu- 

 lose-digesting bacteria and fungi in gut 

 not significant. Protozoa cellulose fer- 

 menting, may be 16 to 36% of weight of 

 termite.) 



Pence, R. J., 1957, pp. 44, 58. (U.S., Cali- 

 fornia, stucco and cement.) 



Pochon, J., Barjac, H. de, and Roche, A., 

 1958, pp. 352-355. (Africa, digestion of 

 cellulose by Sphaerotermes sphaerothorax 

 through bacteria.) 



Waterhouse, D. F., Hackman, R. H., and 

 McKellar, J. W., 1961, pp. 96-112 (Aus- 

 tralia, extracts whole termites (Copto- 

 termes lacteus), break down undenatured 

 chitin.) 



DISTRIBUTION 



Ahmad, M., 1955, pp. 25-27. (East Pakistan, 



Microtermes pakjstanicus, n. sp.) 



1955a, pp. 202-264. (West Pakistan, new 



species of Neotermes, Microcerotermes, 



Eremotermes, Amitermes, Angulitermes.) 



1958, pp. 33-118. (Indomalayan.) 

 1958a, pp. 1 19-198. (Indomalayan.) 



Anonymous, 1957I, p. 22. (U.S.S.R., Moscow.) 

 l 957<\> PP- 1-70- (Itab/, Venice, Reticuli- 



termes lucijugus, Calotermes flavicollis.) 

 1958m, p. 42. (U.S., Reticulitermes hageni 



swarming in building, Trenton, N.J.) 

 19580, p. 63. (Australia, Mastotermes 



darwiniensis not present in Weipa area 



of Cape York Peninsula, results survey 



termite hazard.) 



1959, pp. 17-19. (U.S., map showing where 

 termites most and least numerous.) 



Araujo, R. L., 1958, pp. 185-217. (Biogeog- 

 raphy termites State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 



faunistic list 45 species, including 2 in- 

 troduced species, only 3 species confined 

 within its boundaries.) 

 1958a, pp. 219-236. (Biogeography termites 

 State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, faunistic list 

 31 species, only 2 species confined within 

 its boundaries.) 



Ayoub, M. A., 1959, pp. 429-432. (Saudi 

 Arabia, Microcerotermes diversus.) 



Banerjee, B., 1956b, pp. 204-206. (India, 

 Calcutta.) 



Bieberdorf, G. A., 1958, pp. 52-53. (U.S., 

 Oklahoma.) 



Calaby, J. H., 1956, pp. 89-92. (Western 

 Australia.) 

 1956a, pp. 93-96. (Western Australia.) 

 1956b, pp. 111-124. (Western Australia, 

 Ahamitermes.) 



Calaby, J. H., and Gay, F. J., 1956, pp. 19- 

 39. (Western Australia, Coptotermes 



