no. 3 



INDEX 



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42; soil, dispersion in, 45 (moisture, 45, temper- 

 ature, 45; texture, 43, 46; types, 44, 45); 

 spread, 45; surface treatments, 42, 43; tech- 

 nique for tests, 46; tests: Forest Service (Canal 

 Zone, 44; Georgia, 45; Kansas, 45; methods for, 

 46; Mississippi, 43, 44; Purdue, 44; U.S. mid- 

 western, 45; Wisconsin, 45); tetrachloroben- 

 zene, 42; toxic to animals, plants, 43, 44; tox- 

 icity, 43, 44, 46 (comparative, 44; variation in, 

 43); trench, 42, 43; trunk, about, 14; vapori- 

 zation, 44; vegetation, effect on, 43; volatiza- 

 tion, 44; water content of clay and dry soils, 

 effect of building on, 46; water solution, 42, 44 

 (suspension, 43); wetness soil will vary dosage, 

 44; world, 45 



Soldiers, brain, 33; chaetotaxy, 33; major and 

 minor, 33; morphology, 32, 33; origin, 69; 

 production, 6; ratio to workers, 4; replacement, 

 6; struggle with ant soldier, 37; suppression, 6; 

 transform from workers, 8 



Solomon Islands, British, 12, 18, 34, 42; Guadal- 

 canal, 48; Rennell Island, 23, 70; wood preser- 

 vation, 56 



Solpugid, predator, 37 



Solvents, 16; organic. 54 



Sound, 3, 46-47; production, 3, 46-47 (Isoptera, 

 46; Termitidae, 46); reception, 3, 46-47 



South America, 31, 67 



South Carolina, 51; Charleston, 17 



Southern Building Code Congress, 8 



South Pacific Territories, 20, 70 



Spacing, closer, for control, 14 



Spain, 13, 18, 24, 36, 45, 69 



Species termites, ethological, 48; importance, Phil- 

 ippines, 18; number: Africa, 49 (Belgian 

 Congo, 48; East, 24; Kenya, 49; Nyasaland, 49; 

 Tanganyika, 49); Australia, 20; Brazil, 22; 

 Guinea, Portuguese, 23; India, 27; Indo-Malaya, 

 47; Malaya, 48; Pakistan, Lahore, 23; Philip- 

 pines, 49; Smithsonian collection, 47; Solomon 

 Islands, 48; Venezuela, 49; West Indies, 49; 

 world, 47; Zoological Museum, Hamburg, 50 



Specifications, special, 14. See also Building codes, 

 Control, Wood preservation 



Speciditermes cyclops cyclops, 49 

 cyclops sinhalensis, 49 



Sperms, trophic material for, 32 



Sphaerotermes, nests, 34; sphaerothorax , 3, 22 



Sphecophila rai/ana, cockroach, in colony, 50 



Spherophorus, intestinal bacterium, French ter- 

 mite, 3, 26; toxic or allergenic, not infectious, 

 3, 26 



Spherules, 30; anucleated, in seminal vesicles, 

 reproductives, 30, 32 



Spirachtha, termitophile, 51 



Spirachthodes, termitophile, 51; Old World, with 

 exudatory abdominal appendages, 51 



Spirochaetes, bacteria, 3 



Spirotrichonympha, protozoan, 38 

 crinita, n. sp., 38 

 flagellate, 38 

 segmentata, 38 



Spraying trunks, 15 



Spurs, tibial, formula (3:2:2), 33 



Stadia, stages, function of pupal, holometabolous 

 insects, 5 



Stakes, tests, Canal Zone, Panama, 54, 55, 56; 

 Florida, 54, 55, 56; International Termite Ex- 

 posure, 55, 58; Louisiana, 54, 55, 56; Missis- 

 sippi, 53, 54, 55, 56; southern yellow pine, 53; 

 Wisconsin, 54, 55, 56 



Standards, control, raised, 11 



Staphylinidae, termitophilous, 50, 51 



State, human, 6; insect, 6 



Statistics, wood preservation, 53, 57 



Stephanonympha havilandi, 38 



Stigmergy, 3 



Stimuli, olfactory, 3 



Stolotermes ruflceps, 6, 33 



Stomorhina (Calliphorid parasite) discolor, 36 

 lunata, 36 

 luteigaster, 36 



Strontium-90, 13 



Structural alterations, 11 



Structural Pest Control Act, Board, Commission, 

 California, 28, 31, 32; Florida, (1959), 31; 

 fumigation, 28; North Carolina, 32 



Stucco, digestion, 22 



Stylotermes, 48 



bengalensis, 48 

 fletcheri, 48 

 revision, 48 



Stylotermitinae, 48 



Subslab injection, pressure device, 14 



Subterranean termites, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 

 21, 28, 29, 46, 56, 57; Africa, 21; British 

 Columbia, 15; eastern U.S. group, 4; fumiga- 

 tion, 28; Hawaii, 17; introduced in ships, 31; 

 mutualism with fungi, 29; Philippines, 18; 

 western, 11 



Subulitermes, 47, 49; branch, 36, 47; new genera 

 related to, 47 



Sugarcane, damage to, control, 4, 9, 13, 14, 15, 

 21; cuttings, 12, 14; setts, 15 



Sulfuryl fluoride gas, Vikane, 28, 29 



Sumatra, 6, 23, 61 



Superorganism, colony as, 47 



Supplementary reproductives, neoteinics colony 

 formation by, 8; development influenced neither 

 by diet nor ectohormones, 7; inhibition, 26, 41; 

 Kalotermes flavicollis, 26; molting, 26; Retiadi- 

 termes, 7, 8, 41 



Surinam, 20, 67 



Swarm. See Flight 



Swarmers. See Alates, winged 



Swietenia mahagoni, mahogany, West Indian 

 resistant wood, 9, 40 



Symbionts, 22, 38; flagellates, 38; protozoa, 38 



Symbiosis, 7, 13, 22; bacteria, 22; double, 5; 

 evolution of, 5; fungi, 22; with intestinal pro- 

 tozoa, 5, 22 



Synacanthotermes angolensis, 50 



Syncarpia laurifolia, resistant wood, 40 



Syntermes, 12, 20 

 dims, 32 



Synthesis, 25, 38 



Systemarics. See Taxonomy 



Tamandua, anteater, 37 



"Tanalith U," fluor chrome arsenate phenol, 53, 

 55, 58 



