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decaying timber one king accompanied by many neoteinic queens ; 

 subsequent sectioning revealed the fact that the spermatheca of 

 the latter were filled with spermatozoa, showing in a high degree 

 of probability that they had copulated with the king there found. 

 We often suffer from the damages clone by tliis termite to 

 the wooden buildings, furnitures, bridges, telegraph posts, sleepers, 

 etc. But they are not so severe as in the case of Coptotermes 

 formosanus Shiraki, which will be stated later on. 



Subfamily Coptotermifcinee Holmgren. 

 Genus Arrhinotermes Wasmann. 



7. Arrhinotermes japonicus Holmgren. 



(PL III. Figs. 16, 17 ; Text-figs. 19-21). 



Paratermes canalifrons, Oshima, 1912 (8), p. 69, PL I, figs. 13, 23, PI. 



II, figs. 9, 12, 22, 27. 

 Arrhinotermes japonicus, Holmgren, 1912 (5), p. 122 ; 1913 (6), p. 69, PL 



II, figs. 28 (26 ?), 29 (27 ?) ; Oshima, 1913 (9), p. 276 ; 1914 (10), p. 2. 

 Specimens examined : — 



Sei. Coll., 

 Spec. No. 



Caste 



Preservation Locality 



Collector 



Date 



167 



S. W. Er. 



Ale. 



Botel-tobago, Formosa 



Watasé, Hozawa 

 and Yasuda 



Jun. 12, '11 



168 



S. W. Er. 



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» 



» 



» 



169 



S. W. 



" 



» 



» 



» 



170 



S..W. 



» 



Little Botel-tobago, 

 Formosa 



» 



Jun. 13, '11 



171 



S W. Er. 



» 



Botel-tobago, „ 



» 



Jun. 14, '11 



1) Er. — Ergatoid. 



