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interest after his notable observations on the habits of white ants 

 in India, which he had made before his visit to Japan. Speaking 

 of the insects of Japan Kämpfer says : " Among these a mischiev- 

 ous small Creature, known all over the East- Indies by the name 

 of white Ants, claims the first place. It is a small slender Worm, 

 perfectly white like Snow. They live together in commonalty, as 

 our European Ants do, from whom they do not much differ in 

 shape and bigness. Their head and breast, are of a brownish 

 dark colour and hard to the touch. The Japanese call them Do 

 Toos, which is as much as to say, Piercers, an Epithet, which 

 they very well deserve, for they pierce and perforate whatever 

 they meet with, Stones only and Ores excepted, and when once 

 they get into a Merchant's Ware-house, they are able within a 

 very short compass of time to ruin and to destroy his best Goods. 

 Nothing hath been as yet found out, that will keep them off, but 

 Salt laid under the Goods and spread about them. Our common 

 European Ants are their mortal Enemies, and whatever place the 

 one sort takes possession^ of,t he others must necessarily quit it. 

 They are no more able than Moles to support the open air, 

 and whenever they go out upon an expedition, they defend them- 

 selves by building arches or trenches all along their march, which 

 they know how to tie fast to the ground. These arches are 

 much of the same substance with that of Wasp's-nests," etc. 



Kämpfee' s observations in Japan had been made in 1690, 

 although they were not published until 1727. I may add here 

 that the name " Do Toos " used by Kämpfer is employed in 

 Kiushiu at the present day, where Kämpfer made his chief stay 

 during the two years and three months' sojourn in Japan. 



It is a remarkable fact that where the existence of white 

 ants has been known for centuries, and where Kämpfer more than 



