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taprobanes) in Rangoon. In the Zoology of the Novara Expedi- 
tion, Brauer has described two species from the Nicobar Islands; 
while Forbes* noticed them on the Cocos Keeling Islands, where 
he says they were introduced some years before; this is the only 
instance in which I have been able to find them recorded from a 
coral island. 
Extending down into the Australian region, there is no record 
of any species from the mainland of New Guinea, though I have 
made special enquiries. D'Albertisf mentions them twice on 
Yule Island, no great distance from the mainland, and it is most 
likely that they occur inland; for at the present time most of the 
known portions of New Guinea are either river delta country or 
mountain ranges, neither of which is suitable for their habitations. 
Three species are known from New Zealand, four from Tas- 
mania, and six from Australia. 
I have been unable to come across any reference to Termites 
being found in any of the Pacific Islands, but within this last 
month I have received some from the New Hebrides. They 
belong to a very large species and were sent from Aneityum in a 
bottle full of insects by the Rev. J. H. Lawrie to the Techno- 
logical Museum. In the Hawaiian Islands Blackburn J found 
two species very plentiful, both of which are American forms and 
may possibly have been introduced. 
The home of the white ant, however, appears to be South 
America, and its headquarters Brazil; from which country alone 
twenty-seven species are known. Many of these were collected 
by Bates § on the Amazons, who recorded the habits of 
several species; while Fritz Muller|| has contributed largely to our 
* H. G. Forbes. A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago. 
London, 1885. 
t D'Albertis. New Guinea, Vol. i. pp. 355-401. 1881. 
$ R. McLachlan. On the Termites collected by the Rev. Thos. Black- 
burn. Ann. Nat. Hist. (5), xii. p. 221, 1883. 
§ H. W. Bates. Naturalist on the River Amazon, Lond. 1863; and 
Proc. Linn. Soc. Vol. ii. 1854. 
|| Fritz Miiller. Beitrage znr Kenntniss der Termiten. Jen. Z. Nat. vii. 
pp. 337, 451, 1873; and I.e. 1875 ard 1887. 
