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"^rilS ciiridus structure, Plate 111. lliat Inoks like an artistic 

 streak of mud on a whitewashed wall, is the honie of our 

 latest iinmigTant. the white ant. So far as we are aware this is the 

 first notice of their arrival on this citv. This construction as 



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here depicted was first noticed by j\Ir. C. C. Pierce, the photog- 

 rapher, in April of this year. It appeared then as in the photo- 

 graph. The radiating lines are really tubes composed of gran- 

 ules of wood dust and earth in which these termites or white 



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