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INDEX 



131 



Queen, imaginal, macropterous, 4, 41; moves 

 about in nest, 5, 34; neoteinic, brachypterous, 

 apterous, 6, 7, 26, 41; numbers in colony, 6; 

 ovaries, 32; secretes liquid, 4; size, 6; young, 

 primary, first copulation, fecundity, 4 



Racket, 39; Dry-Cure Engineering Co., 39; in 

 termite control, 16, 32, 39; National Better 

 Business Bureau's reports, 39; quackery, 39; 

 shields, 54; warning against, 39 



Radiation, cobalt-60, 13, 39; colony life, effect on, 

 39; curies, 39; dosages, 39; rontgens, 39; 

 strontium-90, 13; ultraviolet, 26; woodborers 

 treated by, 39 



Radioactive: ashes, 39; cobalt, 26; isotopes, 39; 

 phosphorus, 26, 39; tagging, 39 



Rain, effect on flight, 12, 27 



Rainforest, Panama, 25 



Ratio, workers and soldiers, 4, 7 



Reaction, attraction, olfactory, 26; larvae, nymphs, 

 neoteinics, soldiers, olfaction, crowding, 26; 

 light, 26; temperature, 26 



Real estate agencies, cooperation with, 14 



Rearing, 8, 39; cork, sheet, with cells, 39; damp- 

 wood termites, 39; dry wood termites, 39; mois- 

 ture gradient tubes, end-slotted, 7, 39; mois- 

 ture, minimum, optimum, 39; plaster paris, 

 with sawdust, 39; subterranean termites, 39; 

 temperature, 39; termite houses, 39; Termitidae, 

 culture methods must be developed for, 8; 

 tubes, glass, 39; wood, moist in glass jars, 39; 

 wooden nests, 39 



Redwood, California, foundation grade, 40 



Regeneration behavior, 3, 40; nest structures, 34, 

 40 



Regions, temperate, 27; tropical, 17, 18, 20, 35, 



54. 70, 71 



Regression, 41 



Repellents, termite, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16; aerogels, 

 silica, 9, 10, 11, 12; chemicals as, 14; organic, 

 16, 58; phosphorous, 14; Ps refraction, 9; soil 

 poisons, 42-46; waxy-white substance, 9; wood 

 preservatives, 53-59 



Reproductives, sexuals, apterous formation, 7, neo- 

 teinic, 8; origin, 7, 9; primary, functional, 41; 

 replacement, 7; supplementary, 6, 7, 26, 41 



Report, termite, 10, 13; must not misrepresent, 13 



Research, 7, 13; data evaluated, 11; mediods, 

 wood products, 15; results, new, 5; southern 

 U.S., 13 



Residues, 14, 29, 39, 44, 45, 51 



Resistance in termites to insecticides, 14, 36, 43 



Resistance in woods, 8, 10, 13, 14; natural, 8, 10, 

 13, 14, 40; treated, 53-59 



Resistant woods, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 40; 

 cost, 15; extractives, 40; natural: Africa, 40; 

 Australia, 13, 40; California, 40; Canary Is- 

 lands, 40; hardwoods, 40; Puerto Rico, 40; 

 United States, 8; West Indies, 40; world, 40; 

 tests: Australia, 40; Europe, 40; field, 40; Ger- 

 many, 40; Mississippi, 40 



Responsibility, builder's, 46; home owner's, 46 



Rcticulitermes, 4, 7, 11, 12, 19, 27, 36, 37, 50 

 clypeatus, 50 

 eastern U.S., 4, 8 

 European, 5 

 flaviceps, 27 



flavipes, 4, 7, 13, 14, 15, 18, 20, 23, 24, 25, 

 27, 29, 31, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 44, 46, 57 

 jukjensis, 36 



hageni, 4, 22, 24, 25, 44 

 hesperus, 5, 6, 7, 8, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 



30, 35, 39, 43 



laurae (fossil), 28 



lucifugus, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 

 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 30, 36, 38, 40, 48, 50 



subsp., var. santonensis, 4, 12, 18, 20, 23, 35 



santonnensis, 3, 8, 16, 36 



spp., 29 



spp., morphology soldiers, Europe and Near 

 East, 4, 9 



tibialis, 25 



tibialis dubitans (fossil), 28 



virginicus, 7, 20, 24, 27, 29, 35 



western, 11 

 Retortamonidae, protozoa, 37 

 Retortamonas termitis (protozoa), 37 

 Reviews, 41 



Rhinotermitidae, 22, 25, 30, 31 

 Rhode Island, 27, 46, 66; Providence, 27, 67 

 Rhodiatox, 14 



Rhynchoestus weissi, 36; ectoparasite, 36 

 Rhynchomyia anterotes, calliphorid parasite, 36 

 Rhynchotermes nasntissimits , 25 

 Ribonucleic acid, RNA, 30, 32 

 RNA, ribonucleic acid, 30, 32 

 Rodding holes, 14 

 Rodiaclor, 14 

 Roof, from, 15; in, 11 

 Rostrotermes cornutus, 38 

 Royal chamber, or cell, 4, 34; composition, 34; 



with unusually large openings, 8, 35 

 Rubber, insulation, 1 1 

 Rubber trees, control, 14; damage to, 14; new 



plantings, 19 

 Rugitermes laticollis, 49 

 Rumania, 3, 6, 23, 24, 38, 68, 69 

 Ruminococcus, 3 

 Russia, Union Soviet Socialist Republics, U.S.S.R., 



15, 19, 68, 69 

 Ryania speciosa, wood toxic, 40 

 Ryukyu Islands, 23, 61 



Saline solutions, mortality when termites treated 



with, 26 

 Saliva cements clay of nests, 34 

 Sand barrier, 15 

 Sanitation, 10, 13, 14 

 Santo Domingo. See Dominican Republic 

 Sarawak, 47 



Sardinia, Sardegna, 21, 69 

 Saudi Arabia, 10, 19, 22, 68 

 Savanna, Africa, 5, 23, 30, 37; New Guinea, 34; 



role of termites in, 5; vegetation, Africa, 5; 



woodland area, Australia, 20 

 Sawdust, test of, from different species wood, 40 



