126 



SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



VOL. I43 



J 



Jam (Acacia acuminata), resistant wood, 40 



Japan, 61 



Jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata), 40 



Java, 6, 20, 23, 29, 34, 61 



fugositermes tuberculatus, 38, 48 



Juniperus hardboards, 40 



K 



Kalotermes, 4, n, 41 

 angulatus, 50 

 approximates, 20 

 beesoni, 4, 47, 48 



durbanensis, 8, 19, 24, 26, 35, 39, 50 

 exertifrons, 50 

 flavicollis, 6, 8, 9, 13, 17, 18, 20, 23, 25, 26, 



30, 33. 35. 36, 56 

 flavicollis, var. fuscicollis, 47 

 immigrans, 23, 33 

 jepsoni, 19 

 jouteli, 4, 31 



ra/nor, 7, 20, 26, 28, 29, 31, 37, 56 

 nigritus, fossil, 28; living, 28, 31 

 snyderi, 4 

 sp., 20 

 spinicollis, 50 

 sylvaticus, 50 

 tabogae, 20, 23 

 Kalotermes (Neotermes) sanctaecrucis, 23, 37 

 Kalotermitidae, 22, 31 

 Kansas, 32, 45 



Kentucky, 10, 32; Fort Campbell, 42, 53, 63; 

 pretreatment studs with pentachlorophenol, 

 dyed red, 53 

 Kerosene, 15, 51 



Keys to termites, Afghanistan, 50; Africa: Angola, 

 50; East (Kenya, 50; Tanganyika, 50); Uganda, 

 50; Anacanthotermes , 48; Bahamas, 49; Ber- 

 muda, 49; European, 48; families, 50; field key 

 to soldiers, 48; genera, 50; Indo-Malayan, 47; 

 Iran, 50; Iraq, 50; Malaya, 48; Philippines, 49; 

 soldiers, 48, 50; Solomon Islands, 48; species, 

 49; Venezuela, 49; West Indies, 49; winged, 

 49. 50; wood -destroying organisms, 22 

 Kichinev, 23 

 King, 16; imaginal, macropterous, 41; neoteinic, 



brachypterous, apterous, 6, 7, 26, 41 

 Kwajalein Naval Station, 23 



Laboratory, colonies, 29; cultures, 39; rearing, 39; 

 techniques, 46; testing, 46 



Lac cultivation, 21 



Laminated timbers, glued timbers treated with 

 wood preservatives, 58 



Larix, wood, test, 40 



Lawns, damage to, protection, 16, 20 



Lead, eaten, 18, 35 



Lead -sheathed cables, 11, 40 



Leg, femora, 46; tibiae, 46 



Legal liability, 13, 31 



Legislation, regulation, 31-32; Arizona, 32; Cali- 

 fornia: Assembly Bill, 31; Structural Pest Con- 

 trol Act, 28, 31; Structural Pest Control Board, 



31, 32; new rules, 31, 32 (cities, 32; cost 

 higher, 31); court rulings, 16; enforcement 

 difficult, 31; Florida Structural Pest Control 

 Board, 31, 32; Health, Education, and Welfare, 

 32; liability: personal, 31; property, 31; list 

 States licensing pest control operators, 32; 

 Louisiana, 31; Michigan, 16; New York, Buf- 

 falo, 1944 law flouted, 32; North Carolina 

 Structural Pest Control Commission, 32; Pest 

 Control Operators California, accepted stand- 

 ards, 32; Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 32 (compul- 

 sory control, 32); State, 15, 32; suppressing 

 material fact, fraud, 16, 31, 32; Tennessee, 31; 

 termite control industry should be self-regulat- 

 ing, 31; Texas, 32 (Galveston, 32; La Marque, 

 32; Pasadena, 32); U.S. Dept. Agric, 32; Wis- 

 consin, 32 (penalties for violation, 32); 



Lepidotermes, 47 



Lentinus lepideus, wood-destroying fungus, 29 



Leucopitermes leucops, 47 



Leucotermes lucifugus, 18 

 tenuis, 37 



Leucotermes (Reticulitermes) lucifugus, 18, 24 



Licensed operator, California, 11 



Licenses, new, increased, 17 



Light, 7, See also Phototropism 



Lignum vitae lumber, 31 



Lindane, 11, 13, 42, 45, 56; toxicity, 52 



Lipoid layer, 11 



Loan, 54; cost, 54 



Lobogyniella, mite, tr'dgardki, 37 



Locust, black, 40 



Losses, California, 17; Hawaii, 17; U.S., 10 



Louisiana, 27, 32, 54, 55, 56, 62, 63; Alex- 

 andria, 17, 31; Baton Rouge, 46, 66; Lake 

 Charles, 17; New Orleans, 57, 65 



Lysine, 9 



M 



Maaosubulitermes greavesi, 47 



perlevis, 47 

 Macrolermes angolensis, 49 



gilvus, 6, 20, 21, 29, 34 



mound-building by, 5, 36 



natalensis, 21, 30, 33, 36 



serrulatus hopini, 49 

 Macrotermitidae, 25 



Macrotermitinae, 7, 9, 18, 22, 30; fungus-grow- 

 ing, 3, 22, 29 

 Madagascar, 24, 31, 35, 37. 47, 49. 5*» 62 5 Re- 

 union Island, 24, 62 

 Magnesium in haemolymph, 36; in termite soil, 



3° 

 Mahogany, Philippine, 54; West Indian, Swietenia 



mahagoni, resistant wood, 9, 40 

 Malacca, 47 



Malagasitermes milloti, 47 

 Malagasy zoogeographic region, 47, 61 

 Malathion, 15; acute oral and dermal dosages 



compared with DDT, 52; toxicity, 52 

 Malaya, 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 23* 25, 46, 47. 48, 



57, 60, 61, 62 

 Mandibles, imago-worker in taxonomy, 36; 



phylogeDy, 49; soldier, lost apical points in 



Subulitermes, 36; soldier, Nasutitermitinae, 49; 



variability in soldier, 49; vestigial, soldier, 36 



