no. 3 



INDEX 



I2 7 



Mangifera indica, mango, 3, 21 



Marshall Islands, 23, 70 



Maryland, 66; Annapolis, 17; Baltimore, 10 



Mastigophora, protozoa, Retortamonidae, 37 



Mastotermes, 5, 54 



darwiniensis, 20, 23, 33, 54 



wheeleri (fossil), 28 

 Mastotermitidae, 22, 28, 32 

 Mate for life, 7 

 Mauritius, 13 14, 18, 21, 62 

 Mecistocephalus consocius, centipede, 37 

 Medicine, uses in, 32; smoked termite nest cure 



yaws, 32 

 Megagnathotermes , 33 

 Megaponera, ant, 37 

 Mercury, corrosive sublimate, 16 

 Metamorphosis, holometabolous, 5 

 Metapone, ant, 37 



emersoni, 37 



madagascarica, 37 

 Methoxychlor, toxicity, 52 

 Methyl bromide, fumigant for drywood termites, 



28, 29; poisoning, 10, 51; soil fumigant, 42 

 Mexico, 67; Chiapas, 28 

 Michigan, 16, 66 

 Microcerotermes , 11, 20, 21 



amboinensis, 7 



baluchistanicus, 47 



beesoni, 6, 24 



biroi, 21, 24 



burtnanicus, 48 



championi, compared with burtnanicus, 48 



diver sits, 10, 19, 22, 23, 50 



gabrielis, 25, 49, 50 



longignathus , 47 



los-banosensis, 21 



malmesburyi, 51 



n. sp., 22 



progrediens, 23, 48 



sahjssarensis, 47 



wood, live, eater, 20 

 Microcerotermitinae, 6 

 Microclimate, nests, 7, 34 

 Microhodotermes viator, 23, 27, 34, 43, 47 

 Micronesia, 3, 23, 61 



Microorganisms, association with, 29, 39; elimina- 

 tion of, 29, 35; in termite intestines, 29, 39; 

 in soil, 30, 45; interfere with termite diet, 29, 



35 



Microtermes anandi, 6, 18, 24 

 mycophagus, 19 

 obesi, 9, 15, 20, 21 

 pakistanicus, 22, 47 

 sp., 21 



unicolor, 6, 24 

 upembae, 48 

 vadschaggae, var. grassei, 23, 48; var. d it bins, 



23, 48 



Midway Island, Atoll, 23, 24, 27, 70 



Migration reproductives, 5 



Mimeutermes edentatus, 49 



Mining by termites, 34; mass per unit surface 

 area equal to one-half entire microfauna, earth- 

 worms excluded, 30, 34 



Minnesota, St. Paul, 24, 67 



Miocene, 28, 51, 66 



Mirotermes panamaensis, 37 



Mississippi, 27, 32, 40, 43, 54, 55, 56, 62, 63, 



64, 67; Adams Co., 16; Jackson, 17, 53, 54, 62; 



Saucier, 54, 55, 56; State Highway Dept., 40, 



53. 54 



Missouri, St. Louis, 43 



Mite, acarine, 36; diplogynid, 37; parasite, 36; 

 predator, 37; red, 37, 51; tyroglyphid, 50; 

 white, 37, 51 



Moisture, 7; minimum, 39; optimum, 7, 30, 39; 

 reservoir, 13 



Molt(s), 26 



Molting, change of hosts during, 38; corpora allata 

 determines 26; retrograde, 7 



Montana, 24, 66 



Morphology, 32-33; alate, 32; Anacant/iotermes 

 macrocephalus , 32; body structure, 33; brain, 

 33 (structure in relation to polymorphism, 

 minor and major soldiers and workers, 33); 

 cephalic musculature, 33; chaetotaxy, 33; 

 corpora allata, 33; digestive tract, 33; enteric 

 valve, 33; external, 32, 33 (sex characters, 33); 

 feeding apparatus various castes, 33 (muscu- 

 lature and mechanism, 33); ganglion, 33; 

 glands, endocrine, 33, 41; mouthparts, 33; 

 nasus, 32; nerves 33; neurosecretory cells, 33; 

 nourishment organs, 33; nutrition, biology of, 

 33; oocytes, 32; proventriculus, "social feeding 

 organ," 33; soldiers, 32, 33 (Reticulitermes 

 Europe and Near East, 49); sterna, 33; styles, 

 33; tentorial gland, 32, 33; tergite glandular 

 areas, 32; Termitinae, 33; tibial spurs, 33; 

 tracheae, 33; worker, 32, 33 



Mortality, killed by parasites, 35; period, 11; 

 treated with saline solutions, 26 



Mortgage, how to build homes outlive, 53; loan, 

 cost, 54 



Mound(s), 30; chemical analysis, 9; control, 12, 

 14, 15; iron oxide concretions, 9; soil, texture, 

 9, 30; Somali huts built of red -brown mound 

 earth, 53; structure, inner, 34; Tropics, Africa, 



5. 30, 34. 35 

 Mound -building termites, 9, 21, 34, 35; affect soil 



fertility, 21 

 Mouthparts, 33 

 Mucrotermes osborni, 47 

 Musculature, cephalic, 33 

 Mushrooms, 5 



Mutualism, subterranean termites and fungi, 29 

 Myobatrachus gouldi, frog, white anteater, 37 

 Myrmecobius f. fasciatus, banded anteater, num- 



bat, marsupial, 37 

 Myrmecophile Doryloxentts, 51 



Odontoxenus, termitophile, more primitive 

 than Doryloxentts, 51 



N 



Naphthalene, soil poison, 44 

 Nasus, 32 

 Nasutitermes, 30, 32, 37 



arborum, 6, 30 



beckeri, 49 



branch, 36 



brevioculatus, 14 



ceylonictts, 19 



