BIOLOGY OF THE TERMITES OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. 61 
On November 18, 1912, two larval (ergatoid?) reproductive forms 
with a yellowish pigmentation and rudimentary wing pads were 
found in passages in the ground under a decayed stump at Falls 
Church. 
Nymphs of the second form greatly outnumbered nymphs of the 
first form in a colony of Jlavipes taken in a decaying oak limb on the 
ground on March 22, 1913, at Black Mountain, N. C. 
On April 17, 1913, at Falls Church, molting nymphs of the second 
form of Jlavipes were found together with molting nymphs of the 
first form, some of the former of which had already molted and 
attained the characteristic yellowish pigmentation. 
Molting nymphs of the first and second forms of virginicus were 
found on April 30, 1913, at Falls Church, under decaying slabs of 
wood on the ground. 
Mr. H. S. Barber, of the Bureau of Entomology, on May 30, 1913, 
on the Virginia shore of the Potomac River, opposite Plummers 
Island, Md., found a neoteinic reproductive form of Jlavipes. This 
was a queen exceeding 6 millimeters in length, with wing buds and 
17 segments to the antennae. This queen was associated with 
workers, soldiers, and young in decaying pine wood on the ground. 
(PL XIV, b.) 
On May 26, 1913, nine neoteinic queens of Jlavipes with distended 
abdomens and one king were found near Charteroak, Pa., in the 
interior of a decaying maple stump. Freshly hatched young and 
young larvae were numerous. The queens were not in separate cells, 
but were active and associated with workers and soldiers. (PI. XV.) 
Mr. H. G. Barber, under the title "Another Queen of the White 
Ant Found," states : a 
While on a collecting excursion last Fourth of July with Mr. Charles E. Sleight, at 
Lake Hopatcong, N. J., I found a small colony of white ants beneath a small log- 
where they had made some tunnels along the ground beneath the log. Among the 
individuals was captured a fully developed queen, which was preserved and presented 
to the local collection of insects, at the American Museum of Natural History. 
A large fertilized true queen and a king of Jlavipes were found on 
August 5, at Veitch, Va., in a large colony associated with workers, 
soldiers, and young and several hundred unhatched eggs in the 
sound outer layers of wood, about 1 inch in from the exterior, near 
the base of a dead standing chestnut tree. This tree had died at 
least two years previous, but this may not approximate the age of 
the colony, since termites often infest the bases of living trees by 
obtaining entrance through old abandoned insect burrows. The 
king was hidden beneath the queen, which was about 14 millimeters 
in length. The antennae of the queen in this instance were mutilated 
a Barber, H. G. Another queen of the white ant found. Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, v. 
22, no. 1, p. 73, March, 1914. 
