no. 3 



INDEX 



121 



13, 21; Cistanche tubulosa, 19; citrus trees, 19, 

 20; coconut seedlings, 14; coffee: fields, 30; 

 plantations, 16, 21; seedlings, 21; cork oak, 21; 

 cotton, 14 (plant, 16; seedlings, 21); crops, 15 

 (field, 19, 20; standing, 20; world, 12, 13, 21); 

 Eucalyptus: plantations, 14; seedlings, 12, 20; 

 trees, 19; Ficus, 4; flower beds, 20; flower 

 gardens, 21; flowers, chrysanthemum, 21 (roots, 

 21; stems, 21); food crops, 21; food plants, 21; 

 forest trees: Australia, 19; Honduras, 20; India, 

 20, 21; forests; alpine, 20; hardwood, 19; fruit 

 trees, 15, 19, 20, 21; fruit(s), subtropical, 20; 

 grain, 20; grapevines, 12, 18, 20, 43; grassland, 

 4; grazing, 20; groundnuts, 20; lawns, 16, 20, 

 21; lichens, 6; maize, 9; Mangijera indica, 7, 

 ax; mango, 7, 21, 45; oak, cork {Quercus 

 suber) ax; oats, 20; orchards, 21; palas, 21; 

 palm date, 13; peanuts, 20; peas, 20; pine, 

 radiata, timber, in plantations, 20; Pinus radiata, 

 21; plane tree, 19; plantations, 19, 215 (Euca- 

 lyptus, 14; new teak, 20); plants, 20, 21 (forest, 

 19, 21; living, 10, 16, 19, 20, 21); potato, 20; 

 Quercus suber, 21; rubber, 14 (new plantings, 



16, 19; trees, 46); rye, 20; sugarcane, 4, 9, 13, 

 15, 20, 21 (cuttings, 12, 14; seed, 21; setts, 15); 

 tea bushes, 19, 20; teak trees, 6, 20; trees, 4, 



17, 18, 20 (apple, 20; forest, 20, 21; green, 

 19; living, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21); vegetables, 19, 

 21; veld, 20; vines, 12, 21; vineyards, 18, 20; 

 watde, 21; wheat, 11, 20; woody plants, 43; 

 yew, 15 



Damage, to materials, 7, 9-19; art treasures, 

 Rome, 17; books, 17, 18; buildings, 16, 17, 18, 

 19, 54; cable, underground, 11; church, St. 

 Mark's, Venice, 17; clothes, 4, 17; construction 

 timbers, 11, 19; control jobs, increase, 17; 

 corks, 17; cost, 10, 15, 17; cotton, 17; cracks in 

 concrete widened, 13; docks, dry, floating, 28, 

 29, 31; documents, important, 19; Doge's Pal- 

 ace, 17; doorposts, 18; flooring, 18; frames, 

 window, 18; furniture, 17; groundnuts, stored, 

 18; homes, 17, 54; houses, 16, 18, 54; house- 

 hold, 18; increasing, 56; kinds, 17; linen, 17; 

 logs, 19; mortar, lime, 17; paper, 18, 20; (mat- 

 ting, 17); photograph file, 37; piling, 17; prop- 

 erties, 18; records, valuable, 16; refrigerator dis- 

 play case, 20, 50; roofs, thatched, 17; sleepers, 



18, 19 (railway, 18); textiles, 56; ties, railroad, 

 19; timbers, 12, 17, 18; type, 18; vapor bar- 

 riers, 9; wall paper, 17; walls, 17; wood, 18, 

 19 (fallen, 19, products, 18); wooden articles, 

 4 (boxes, 18; structures, 19) 



Dampwood termites, 10, 13, 15, 21, 39; control, 

 15; damage, 10, 13, 15, 21; rearing, 39 



DDT, dichloro-diphenyl-trichlorethane, 11, 13, 14, 

 15, 42, 44, 45, 51, 52; BHC mixture, 19; dose 

 orally and dermally, 52; emulsion, 12; failed, 



14, 42, 43; nervous system affected by, 36; soil, 

 iron in, decomposes, 44; toxaphene mixture, 19 



Debris, chemical treatment brick and mortar, 13; 

 removal cellulose, 13, 14 



Decay, rot, io, 13, 16, 17, 18, 40, 53, 54, 56, 57; 

 description wood rots, 54; insurance, treated 

 lumber, 54, 58; Lentintts lepideus, wood de- 

 stroying fungus, treated lumber, protection 



against, in FHA Minimum Property Standards, 

 13; methods protection against, 53, 56; types, 

 29; wood preservation, 56 



Defaunation, 13 



Delaware, Wilmington, 1 



Del -Mar- Va Peninsula, or Eastern Shore, 18, 64 



Demeton, 51 



Depth, 5 



Desiccation, removal of lipids of epicuticle, 11 



Detection, 11, 12, 14, 22; damage, 22; dampwood, 

 22; drywood, 22; earth in galleries, 22; excre- 

 ment on wood, 22 (yellow, clayey, 6, 22); 

 flight, 22; pellets: large, 22; small, 22; subter- 

 ranean, 22; tubes, 22 (putty-colored, 21, 22); 

 wood-destroying organisms, key to, 22 



Deterrent, See Repellent 



Development, cockroaches, 30; embryological, 8, 

 25; incipient colonies, 8; Orthoptera, 30; ter- 

 mites, 30 



Development cycle, Reticulitermes , 4 



Diatomites, 16 



Diazinon, 51 



Dichloro-diphenyl-trichlorethane, DDT, 11, 13, 



14, 15, 16; emulsion, 12; failed, 14 

 Dieldrin, 9, n, 12, 19, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 51, 



54; as dust, 12, 15, 16, 43; as soil poison, 9, 

 11, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 (leads to damage by 

 other insects, 11); as spray, 12; emulsion, 14, 



15, 16; hazard, 52; most persistent, 14, 46; 

 residual effect longer, 16; soil fertility not af- 

 fected, 15, 43; toxicity, 52; water solution, 42; 

 water suspension, 43; wood preservative, 53 



Digestion, 22; bacteria, 22; cellulase, 22; cellulose: 

 by symbiotic flagellates, 22; by bacteria, 3, 22; 

 cement, 22, 35; chitin, 22; concrete, 17; flagel- 

 lates, 22; fungi, 22; fungus-growing termites, 

 22; Macrotermitinae, 22; protozoa intestinal, 22, 

 39; stucco, 22, 35; symbiosis, 22; time to, 22 



Digestive tract, two types, 33; variation corre- 

 spond to two lines of evolution, 33 



Dilan, 51 



Dimethyl parathion, powder, 12 



Diptera, flies, parasites: calliphorid, 36; muscid, 

 36 



Discipline, study in, 8 



Distribution, 22-25, 47, 48, 49; Adriatic Coast, 23; 

 Afghanistan, 25, 50; Africa: Belgian Congo, 

 47, 48; East, 21, 23, 24, 25, 48, 49 (Kenya, 48, 

 49; Tanganyika, 14, 21, 49); Egypt, 23, 25; 

 Ethiopia, 23; French Cameroons, 23, 48; Sa- 

 hara, NW, 24; savannas, 23; South, 8, 23, 24, 

 47; West, 59; Arabia, southwest, 23, 48; Aroa 

 Island, 24; Australia, 4, 23 (Cape York Penin- 

 sula; Weipa area, 22; mainland, 20; west, 22); 

 Austria, 69; Balkans, 23, Belgrade, 23; Brazil, 

 22; British Columbia, 24; British Common- 

 wealth, 23; British Honduras, 23; Bucharest, 

 23; Burma, 24; Canary Islands, 69; Canton 

 Island, 23; Ceylon, 24; China, 24; Cyprus, 23; 

 Czechoslovakia, 23; Dniester River, 23; Ethio- 

 pian region, 24; Europe, 23, 24 (southwest, 

 25); Formosa, 24; France, 23; general, 70-71; 

 Greece, 25; Guam, 23; Guinea, Portuguese, 23; 

 Hawaii, 25 (Molakai, 23); India, 24 (Calcutta, 

 22, Dehra Dun, 24; Mysore State, 25, Rajasthan, 



