CHAPTER IV. 
TERMITES (WHITE ANTS). 
N comparison to their individual size, the only terrestrial animals, probably, 
that by their concerted efforts produce anything approaching the colossal 
lee fabrications of the Coral Polyps, are the so-called White Ants or Termites. 
In this hypothetic parallelism it is of course not suggested that the organisms and 
their correlated products possess any homologous 
relationship, since, while the Corallum or Coral Mass 
is literally the internally secreted skeleton of the 
associated Polyps, in the case of the White Ants the 
huge fabrication is purely external or architectural. 
The very considerable di- 
versity of both size and shape 
that distinguishes the mounds 
or termitaries con- 
structed by different 
species of White 
Ants is familiar 
to most travellers 
in tropical climates. 
In the northern 
territories of the 
Island-Continent 
of 
(istinctive types are found, and it is with 
Australia some highly remarkable 
especial relation to a few of the more con- 
spicuous of these, which have fallen within 
the writer’s observation, that the present 
— Chapter has been written. 
TERMITE MOUNDS, ALBANY PASS, NORTH QUEENSLAND. 
