Hubbard.] 272 [December 26, 



nests, there was a flight of winged termites in their vicinity, but 

 several hundreds of other nests were about, and I could not tell 

 from which they .came. These winged ants were, as I recollect, de- 

 cidedly smaller, but of the same general color with those from nest 

 No. 3. I am afraid I have lost the specimens I collected, at least I 

 have not yet found them. I examined a nest (not mentioned in my 

 notes) which did not differ in any marked way from Nos. 1 and 2, 

 and contained no nodules, but was full of a brood, having dark 

 wings. 1 I cut up the nest but failed to find the queen. I have little 

 doubt she was there, but I was hampered in my examination by the 

 presence of a large red ant which occupied a portion of the nest, 

 and which poured forth in multitudes, covering the ground and the 

 bushes about, so that I worked with a number of the brutes crawling 

 under my clothes and biting me badly. 



These red ants I often found even in very new and vigorous Ter- 

 mites nests. They seem to be nocturnal, and always confined them- 

 vesels to that portion of a nest which they had first seized upon, and 

 even when disturbed, I never saw one of them enter the galleries of 

 any other part, although I could not discover that any distinct barri- 

 cade or wall had been made between their corner and the rest of the 

 nest. 



One of the small bottles contains a few termites of a small, elon- 

 gated species, taken out of a gallery running up a palm tree, and 

 among them are mandibulate soldiers. I found no soldiers in the 

 galleries of any other species, and I believe nest No. 3 is the only 

 one 2 in which I found them. Even there they were so few that I am 

 surprised that I detected them at all among the millions of workers. 

 They only occurred, as far as I could see, in one corner of the nest. 

 Of this little species from the palm, I never found the nest. It is 

 possible that the small nests which I sometimes saw in other parts of 

 the island, quite high up and upon the side of the cocoanut trunks, 

 may have belonged to this species, but I never had a chance to ex- 

 amine any of them. I often examined the galleries of Termites 

 remote from any nest, and usually running up living trees. Some- 

 times they were deserted, but usually a more or less constant stream 

 of workers was going up and down. Once or twice I found in such 

 a gallery nothing but black-headed nasutl (long-nosed form), and 



1 Eutermes morio. Dr. H. 



2 Belongs to E. Rlppertli. Dr. H. 



