JOURNAL OP THE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TOKYO IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY. 

 VOL. XXXV., ARTICLE 7. 



Revision of the Japanese Termites. 



By 

 Sanji Hozawa, RigahusM. 



Zoological Institute, Science College, Tokyo Imperial University. 



With 4 fiâtes and 39 text-figures. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



The existence of termites has been known for over a thou- 

 sand years in this country. This is well attested by the frequent 

 allusions to their occurrence in the old Japanese annals and litera- 

 ture. Among such documents, we notice with interest repeated 

 references to their swarming which was looked upon with forebod- 

 ings by the ignorant and superstitious. The damage to wooden 

 structures by termites, now so wide spread, did not escape their 

 notice, although allusions to this phase of their activity are not 

 very frequent. 



The first notice ever written on the Japanese termites by 

 any western observer was that of Kämpfee (1), as was first 

 pointed out by Hagen (1) in his well known monograph on Termites. 

 Kämpfer seemed to have noticed Japanese termites with special 



