Vm INSECTS IXJURIOTIS TO FOREST PRODUCTS. 
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Fig. 1. The chestnut telephone-pole borer (Parandra brunnea): Full-grown 
larva 3 
2. The chestnut telephone-pole borer: Female beetle, head and pro- 
notum of male beetle 4 
3. The chestnut telephone-pole borer: Pupa 5 
4. View of a portion of the large number of treated experimental stakes 
under test as to the relative effectiveness of various preventives 
against termite attack 19 
5. A'iews of unfinished and finished termitarium. showing structure and 
interior with termite-infested wood ' 21 
6. Wood of outer layers at base of insect-killed southern yellow pine 
honeycombed by termites 24 
7. Suspended tubes constructed by termites of earth and excreted wood. 26 
8. Broken-off pine sapling from basal end of which tubes in figure 7 
were suspended toward stump 27 
9. Nymphs and soldiers of Leucotermes virginicus; young nymphs, and 
grayish-black bands on abdomen of worker of flavipes 29 
10. Molting larvae of Leucotermes flavipes in the quiescent stage 34 
11. Molting nymph of the first form of Termopsis angusticollis in the 
quiescent stage 39 
12. View of a swarm of Leucotermes flavipes showing a portion of the enor- 
mous number of winged, colonizing sexed adults that constitute a 
swarm, emerging from an infested stump .48 
13. Dorsal, ventral, and lateral views of a fertilized, mature, true queen 
of Leucotermes flavipes, showing the position of the spiracles 67 
14. Red-oak block impregnated with paraffin wax honeycombed by ter- 
mites after a five months' test 78 
