no. 3 



INDEX 



I2 3 



Extractives, 40; chlorophorin, African iroko, 40; 

 pinosylvin, Scots pine, 40; P a , mahogany, 9; 

 Ryania speciosa, wood, toxic, 40; substance #1 

 Osage orange, 40; taxifolin, Douglas fir, 40; 

 tectoquinone, Tectona grandis, teak, 40; tetra- 

 hydroosajin, Osage orange, 40; toxic, 40 



Family unit, 8 



Fastigitermes, 33 



Fat body reserve, 4 



Fauna, Dalmatia, 25; intestinal, 38 



Federal Housing Administration, FHA, 56 



Feeding, 4; organ, 33 



Femur, 46 



Ferox, wood preservative, 56 



Fertilization in protozoa, 38 



FHA, Federal Housing Administration Minimum 

 Property Standards, 10, n, 13 



Fiberboard, 53, 54, 56; wood preservation, raising 

 resistance, 56 



Film recordings, 6 



Fire hazards, 51 



Fire retardants, 53, 54, 55; ammonium phosphate, 

 55. 56; ammonium sulfate, 55, 56 (plus borax 

 and boric acid, 55; plus chromated zinc chlo- 

 ride, 56); control by, detailed, 56; chromated 

 zinc chloride, 54, 56; history, 56; Minalith, 54; 

 Protexol, 54; Pyresote, 54; tests, tunnel, etc., 56; 

 vinegar, 56 



Firmitermes abyssinicus, 47 

 ?tripolitantts, 47 



First aid for poisoning, 43, 52 



Flagellates, 5, 13, 22, 38; holomastigotid, 37; 

 hypermastigote, 38; intestinal, 38; symbiotic, 22, 

 38; trichonymphid, 37 



Flies, parasites, termitophiles, calliphorid, 36; 

 muscid, 36; sarcophagid, 51 



Flight, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 27; atmospheric pressure, 

 effect, 27; behavior worker, 27; calling attitude, 

 27; distance, 27; first, 5, 27 (not all leave, 27); 

 height, 27; humidity, effect, 27; not indispen- 

 sable for copulation and egg laying, 8; preda- 

 tors, 27; pressure, effect, 27; rain, after, 27; 

 survival, small percentage, 27, 37; swarm, 27 

 (forecasting, 27; seasonal, 27; several, 27); 

 temperature, effect, 27; time, day, 27 (lasts, 27; 

 year, 27); wing shedding, 27 



Flooring, beech, 18 



Flora, bacterial, 5 



Florida, 4, 11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 31, 32, 42, 

 54» 55> 56, 63, 64, 66, 6y, central, 17; Gaines- 

 ville, 42, 46, 64, 66; home-owners guide, 13; 

 Jacksonville, 54; Miami, 31 



Fluorescence, adipose tissue, 7, 26; chitin, 7, 26; 

 differentiation internal organs, 26 



Fluorides, contact insecticides, 12; water soluble, 

 12 



Fogging hazards, 51 



Folklore, 27 



Food, 8; brood, dead and living, 8; cellulose, 

 rotten, 6; exuviae, 8; humus, 34; lichens, 6; 

 kind, 35; newsprint, 26, 35; preferences, 7, 26, 

 35; soil, 8; stomodeal, 7; termites as, 25, 27; 

 volume, 35; white anteater, 37; wood fragments 

 reserve, 34 



Foraging, 4, 6, 11 



Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, India, 49 



Forest termites, alpine forest, 19; Australian, 19 



Forficulitermes planifrons, 48 



Formosa, Taiwan, 8, 11, 16, 19, 21, 24, 30, 58, 

 60, 61, 62 



Fossil, 5, 27-28; age, 27; amber, 27, 28 (Baltic, 

 28; Mexican, 28); Eocene, 27, 28; Geisel tales, 

 28; general, 28; Geological States Inst., 28; 

 Miocene, 27, 28; Oligocene, 27, 28; Permian, 

 Pleistocene, 28; shale, 28; Tertiary, 28 



Foundations, concrete, 19, 12; impervious, 10, 14; 

 sound, 10, 14 



France, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 26, 

 33. 35. 36, 39. 4i» 42, 43. 53. 68, 69; Banyuls, 

 Eastern Pyrenees, 12, 20, 43; termites hazard 

 in, 18 



Fraud, See Racket 



Frogs, Australian desert, 37 



Fumigation, 10, 11, 15, 28-29; business cost, 15, 

 drydock, floating, 28, 29; dry wood termites, 28, 

 29; ethylene dibromide, 28, 42; evil spirits, 27; 

 fans, 28, 29; hazards, 10; heat exchanger, 29; 

 methyl bromide, 28, 29; precautions, 10, 28, 

 29; slabs, 28; soil, 28; specifications, California, 

 28, 29; subterranean termites, 28, 29; sulfuryl 

 fluoride, superior to methyl bromide, latter su- 

 perior to ethylene dibromide, 28, 29; tarps, 28, 

 29; techniques, 28, 29; tents, 28; U.S. Dept. 

 Agric, 29; Vikane, sulfuryl fluoride, 28 (quali- 

 ties, 28, 29); waterline, 29 



Fumiseal tents, 28 



Fungi, association with, 29; decreasing compatibil- 

 ity to Reticulitermes flavipes, Porta incrassata, 

 Lenzites trabea, Polyporus versicolor, Porta 

 monticola, Lentinus lepideus, last definitely 

 antagonistic, 29 



Fungi, wood-destroying, see also Decay, Rot. 

 antagonistic, 29; compatibility degrees with ter- 

 mites, 29; not necessary for prolonged existence 

 termites {Reticulitermes)}, 29; wood preserva- 

 tion prevents, 58 



Fungicides, 56 



Fungus, fungi, antagonistic to termites, 29; asso- 

 ciation with, 29; compatible with termites, 29; 

 interfere with termite diet, 29, 35; only para- 

 sites, 29; subterranean termites, mutualism, 29 



Fungus comb, pH acidic, 29; maintains high hu- 

 midity, heat, 29, 30 



Fungus cultivation, growing termites, 7, 22, 29: 

 Africa, 29; agaric, 29; association between, and 

 mushrooms, 5; conidia eaten, 29; food for 

 young, 7; Java, 29; Macrotermitinae, 3, 29; 

 vegetation, finely cut in nest, 29 



Fungus garden, bed, 5; construction of, 29, 34; 

 fruiting bodies brought to surface, 29; reserve 

 food supply during floods, 34; vegetation, 

 macerated in, 34 



Furculitermes brevilabitts, 48 

 brevimalatus , 48 

 cubitalis, 48 

 hendric\xi, 48 

 longilabius, 48 

 parviceps, 48 

 soyeri, 48 

 winifredae, 47 



