AUSTRALIAN TERMITIDJ1, 
Another nest was found upon the summit of a rock at Manly, 
near Sydney, apparently built over the stump of a small tree that 
had been growing in a cleft of the rock. A number of covered 
galleries led down over the face of the rock into the ground, and 
in several places where they passed over a sharp angle the 
covered ways were transformed into tubular bridges from point to 
point; these galleries averaged from ^ to a J of an inch in breadth 
and were constructed entirely of vegetable matter. When one of 
the galleries was broken the soldiers rushed out in a small body, 
scattering on either side of the damaged roadway; after hunting 
about on the surface of the rocks, the}' then retreated to the 
breach, which they all entered and formed a rank along either 
side, standing just far enough apart to touch the tips of each other's 
antenna?. While they stood in this regular line with their heads 
up and their antennse moving backwards and forwards, the 
workers appeared, each carrying in its mouth a bit of wood or 
fragment from the wall, and, passing between the soldiers who 
were standing guard, deposited its burden upon the edge of the wall 
and turning round evacuated a small drop of dark brown liquid 
from its anus upon the top of its brick and then disappeared, the 
next one taking his place and going through exactly the same 
performance, an endless gang of workers following each other and 
rapidly reducing the size of the hole; a gap about an inch long 
and half an inch deep was rebuilt in half an hour. Unlike 
the two-jawed termites, which never rebuild their nests in the 
daytime, the Eutermes do not seem to dislike the light, but will 
expose themselves in the hottest sunlight when mending their 
nests. 
The nest upon the rock at Manly was partly demolished and a 
small queen obtained from the centre in February, and about 
three months afterwards was found rebuilt, the material being all 
woody matter, crisp and thin, and cutting up like egg shell. I 
have seen one of these nests built on the top of a gate post? 
another upon the top of a pile in a bridge, the termites having 
formed it under the iron cap in the cavity between it and the top 
of the pile; it lifted off in a single mass like a small cheese. 
