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TERMITES FROM BRITISH INDIA (NEAR BOMBAY, 



IN GUJERAT AND BANGALORE) COLLECTED 



BY De. J. ASSMUTH, S.J. 



BY 



Nils Holmgren (Stockholm). 

 Part II. 

 (With Plates E, F, 0.) 

 (Continued from 'page 793, Vol. XXI.) 



I have again received two consignments of termites (43 tubes 

 in all) from Dr. Assmuth to work them out for publication in the 

 Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, the one coming 

 from Bombay, Hubli, Bangalore, and Krishnarajapuram, the other 

 from Borivli (near Bombay), and the province of Gujerat (Anand, 

 Godhra, Vadtal, Tuwa). 



Hubli is situated in 15°-20' N. and 75^-9' E., 2,500 feet above the 

 level of the sea, and about 470 km. south of Bombay. 



Bangalore is situated in 12"-58' N. and 77°-35' E., 3,500 feet 

 above the level of the sea, and 850 km. south of Bombay. 



Krishnarajapuram is the first station after Bangalore on the line 

 Bangalore-Madras, about 13 km. east of Bangalore. 



The province of Gujerat is for the greater part lowland ; thus 

 Anand is but 135 feet above the level of the sea and the elevation of 

 the other places in Gujerat mentioned above is more or less the same. 

 The greater portion of the province is cultivated land ("the garden 

 of India"), jungle occurs but sporadically (e. g., between Godhra and 

 Tuwa). Anand, one of the most important places in the Kaira 

 District, is situated in 22°-33' N. and 72^-58' E., 435 km. almost 

 directly north of Bombay, Vadtal (Wartal) is nearly 15 km. 

 north-west of Anand, Tuwa about 70 km. and Godhra 80 km. 

 east of the same place. 



The special value of both collections consists in this that they 

 are the first more extensive ones from the said parts of India. Our 

 knowledge of Indian termites was up to now based on collections 

 made in Bombay and its envii'onments, in the Wallon district, in 

 Sind, and near Madras. From Bangalore I had so far seen only 

 one species (Odontotermes homgalorensis), and from Gujerat none at 

 all were known. 



The Gujerat collection was rather poor ; this was due to the 

 remarkable drought of 1910 and 1911 which had forced the 

 termites to repair to greater depths in the soil. In spite of this, 

 Assmuth was able to procure no less than 16 tubes from there. 



