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This species is also known to do harm to cherry, pine, willow, 

 mulberry, tea, pear and other living trees; they make their way into the 

 wood through cracks or other openings in the wood. Sound camphor 

 seedlings with no wound whatever often suffer from attacks of this 

 white ant. 



II. Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki 

 1. Description. 



Winged Form: Length 6.5-7.5 mm. Brownish yellow, head darker, 

 ventral surface and legs yellowish brown, meso- and metanotum whitish 

 anteriorly. Wing yellowish, at the basal portion with brownish tint. 

 Body covered with brownish long hairs; in the abdomen densely. Pu- 

 bescence of the wing dense and comparatively long. Head oval. Fontanel 

 indistinct. Compouird eyes normal in size, prominent. Ocelli small, placed 

 near to the compound eyes. Basal portion of the clypeus short. Labrum 

 subtriangular. Antennae 19-20-jointed. Pronotum as broad as head, with 

 somewhat concave anterior margin and nearly straight posterior margin. 

 Meso- and metanotum narrower posteriorly, on posterior margins with a 

 deep incision. Scale of the anterior wing large. Length of wing 11-12 

 mm. Media very near to the cubitus. Cubitus about 8-branched. 



King: Length 7 mm similar to the winged form. 



Queen (old) : Length 24-27 mm. Width of the abdomen 7-8 mm. 

 Abdomen long elliptical, milky white in color, with yellowish tints in the 

 intermediate portions between the dorsal plates. 



Nymph of the winged form : Length 7 mm. Whitish in color, with 

 short light brownish hairs. Compound eyes and ocelli present but colour- 

 less. Wing sheath broad. Antennse 15-20-jointed. 



Nymph of the substitute royal form: Length 6 mm. Yellowish in 

 color, with short whitish hairs. Compound eyes colorless. Antennje 

 15-18-jointed. Pronotum small, narrower than head. 



Soldier : Length 5-5.5 mm. Head brownish yellow, darker anterior- 

 ly ; mandibles brownish black ; pronotum pale yellow ; thorax and abdomen 

 yellowish white. Pubescence brownish ; in the head sparsely. Head rounded 

 and narrower anteriorly, fontanel large and directed forward. Antenna 

 15 jointed. Pronotum much narrower than head. 



