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especial!}^ soldiers — in a tube or small bottle filled with common 

 metli3dated spirit (such as used for burning purposes) ; write locality, 

 date and any other remark you have to make, with lead-pencil (not 

 with ink) on a slip of paper and place it into the tube ; secure, if 

 possible, a bit of the wood attacked ; pack both — tube and wood — 

 securely in a box, and send it to the writer of this paper (Rev. Joseph 

 Assmuth, Professor of Biology, StXavier's College, Bombay [Fort]).* 

 That is all you are requested to do. If advisable I am perpared 

 to go personally to places badly infested with Termites to make 

 investigations on the spot. 



Thus — by the active co-operation of all concerned — it will be pos- 

 sible to gain, in course of time, a clear insight into what must be our 

 first and foremost endeavour to know about the White Ants: 

 which species are genuine wood-destroyers, which districts are free 

 from and which are infested with them, which is their mode of 

 living, nesting, breeding, etc. Then, and not till then, the further 

 and final step may, with a fair chance of success, be taken : the 

 finding of suitable means to combat the White Ants. 



* My friend, Mr. T. Bainbrigge Fletcher, Imperial Entomologist, Agricultural 

 Research Institute, Pusa, Bengal, is also ready to receive specimens and answer 

 inquiries. 



