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picked up and dropped into boiling water and cleaned and the 

 process repeated; in a short time the colony has been so reduced 

 as to give very little trouble for a time being. The nests of the 

 black ant are found outside the building in the ground and the 

 inhabitants can be killed by the use of gasoline or carbon bisul- 

 phide. As both of these substances are explosive in the presence 

 of fire, care should be exercised not to use matches or allow smok- 

 ing when applying them. When the nest is found make three to 

 six holes with a pointed cane or iron rod about ten inches deep 

 and into each put about one ounce of either liquid and then close 

 each hole with some loose earth. This might have to be repeated 

 if the queens have not been killed. The nests of the other house 

 ants are usually behind the baseboards or between the sills and 

 the foundation; sometimes they build between the paper and 

 wooden partitions. A liberal application of either gasoline or 

 kerosene when the nest is found will very often kill oif the colony. 



White Ants. (Termites). 



The white ants or termites are not very often seen by the 

 occasional observer. They live in colonies and do serious injury 

 to the wooden structure of buildings in which they work unmo- 

 lested and unobserved. They tunnel in the timbers near the 

 ground at first and gradually work their way into the upper 

 structure, of buildings in which they work unmolested and unob- 

 served. They tunnel in the timbers near the ground at first and 

 gradually work their way into the upper structure. One species 

 {C O'ptotermes) has proven very destructive on this Island. This 

 species from all accounts has been in the Territory for many years 

 and was probably brought in here from the Orient or Austral- 

 asia. In June, 1912, we found a colony in the piling at the very 

 end of Pier JSTo. 7, and through our advice the harbormaster at 

 that time succeeded in' Irilling out that colony by using a mixture 

 of equal parts of crude oil and kerosene which was poured into 

 holes bored into the piles. Since then this pest has been reported 

 from the Kamehameha Schools, the Capitol grounds and is now 

 found on several wharfs of Honolulu. When the pest once takes 

 hold of any structure it requires immediate action to stem its 

 destructive work. All infested timbers should be removed and 

 replaced with new ones which have been treated with creosote, 

 crude oil or various other timber preservatiA^es. The pest lives 

 underground, and when a building has a stone foundation it will 

 build mud runways from the ground over the stone to the wood 

 work above it. I am afraid that this pest will prove a serious 

 menace to many wooden structures in Honolulu. It will meau that 

 concrete foundations will have to be used and the open spaces 

 under buildings be made more accessible so as to facilitate fre- 



