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Our common white ant (Termes flavipes) has been several 

 times reported to me for its injuries to buildings and other wood- 

 work. A large portion of one side of a small farm house in Put- 

 nam county was eaten out by it in 1887, and a small granary was 

 nearly destroyed on the same premises; and in 1888 a similar oc- 

 currence was reported from Yarna, Illinois, where the wood-work 

 of some windows and the supports of a heavy chimney had been 

 completely destroyed. 



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