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Liberia : No detailed locality, 1908 (Sherer), A.M.N.H. 



Ghana : Yeji, 9.1.1927, Accra, 13. v. 1936 (A. W. J. Pomeroy) ; Bobiri Forest, 

 23m. from Kumasi on Accra Road, 21. ii. 1959, Kumasi, 22. ii. 1959, Ejura, 23. ii. 1959, 

 60m. N. of Ejura on Tamale Road, 24.il. 1959, Awura Forest, 4m. from Ejura on 

 Kintampo Road, 28.iii.1959, 9m. from Nkoranza on Techiman Road, and 12m. X. 

 of Techiman on Wenchi Road, 29.iii.1959 (W. A. Sands). 



Nigeria : Western Region ; Sobo Plain, Obanokoro, 8. i. 1957, Lagos, Light- 

 house Beach, 10. iv. 1957 (W. Wilkinson) : Olokemeji, 30m. W. of Ibadan, 8.xii.i957, 

 Agodi, Ibadan, 10.xii.1957, between Shagamu and Ijebu-Ode, 14.xii.1957 (IF. A. 

 Sands). Eastern Region ; Port Harcourt, 14-16. iii., 1-2. iv. 1957, 29m. from Port 

 Harcourt on Owerri Road, 19. iv. 1957 (W. Wilkinson). Northern Region ; 6m. N. 

 of Minna, 20.xii.1956, 18m. from Bida on Badeggi Road, 24.xii.1956, Idu Forest, 

 20m. from Abuja on Kefn Road, and Gwagwa Forest, near Abuja, 28.xii.1956, 

 Gwachipe Forest, 12m. from Abuja on Minna Road, 29.xii.1956, Dogon Forest, 

 65m. from Jos on Kafanchan Road, 8.11.1957, 6m. N. of Jebba on Mokwa Road, 

 16.xii.1957, 42m. from Gboko on Oturkpo Road, 26. ii. 1958, 22m. from Lokoja on 

 Kabba Road, 10. iii. 1958, 23m. from Kabba on Ondo Road, n. iii. 1958 (W. A. Sands). 



Cameroun : Mbalmayo, 7.x. 1962 (G. Becker), own collection. 



Republic of Congo : Brazzaville, 7.VL1948 (A. E. Emerson), A.M.N.H. 



Congo : Basoko, 1909 (H. Lang and /. P. Chapin) ; 5km. from X-roads near 

 Bilni (near Mambasa, Ituri Forest), 10. v. 1948, Stanleyville, 25. v. 1948, Yangambi, 

 30. v. 1948 {A. E. Emerson) (with Lang-Chapin coll., at A.M.N.H.) ; Garamba Nat. 

 Park, 1950 (H. de Saeger and G. Demoulin), Inst, des Pares Nat. du Congo, 

 Brussels. 



Uganda : Bwamba, 19. iii. 1949, Kigezi, 1947 (IF. V. Harris) ; 16m. from 

 Kampala on Entebbe Road, 1. iii. 1955 (W. Wilkinson). 



A total of 52 nest series were examined, and all material is in the British Museum 

 (Natural History) unless otherwise stated. 



Though common from Sierra Leone to Uganda, this species appears to have a 

 more limited range south-eastwards than some of its congeners. It is found mainly 

 in rain forest or forest outliers in forest-savannah mosaic areas (Keay et al., 1959, 

 vegetation types 7 and 8), though occasionally recorded from true savannah-wood- 

 land vegetation when growing under moist conditions near forest. The records of 

 this species from Senegal and the Cape (referring to the Cape of Good Hope) by 

 Hagen (1858), repeated in Snyder (1949), are erroneous. The Cape of Good Hope 

 specimen of the soldier is Trinervitermes trinervoides (Sjostedt), and the Senegal 

 alate specimen does not belong to the subfamily Nasutitermitinae at all, but is 

 probably Termes or Promirotermes. 



The nests of this species are of dark brown, almost black carton, usually situated 

 above ground level in trees or on woody lianes. The carton foraging runways 

 extend in all directions for considerable distances, and it is common to find only the 

 foraging workers and soldiers and to be unable to trace the nest. 



