BIOLOGY OF THE TERMITES OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. 63 
In a near-by dead oak tree about 1 foot in diameter, which had 
been dead probably for two years, another true queen of this species 
was found on the same day. This queen was oblong and approxi- 
mately 12^ millimeters in length (measured while living). The royal 
cell was in the decayed wood about one-half inch from the exterior 
at the base of the tree near the roots. The colony was large in num- 
bers. Hundreds of eggs in clusters were in shallow galleries under the 
bark. The male was not found. Sometimes eggs in large clusters 
were found in deep, transverse, conical ledges or notches, attended 
by workers. 
When the royal cell is cut into and the queen removed, the large 
number of attending soldiers and workers become very much ex- 
cited, as evidenced by constant convulsive movements or sudden 
jerking of the whole body. 
In this same woodland, on July 20, four neoteinic queens of 
flavipes were found in the more solid wood of a low (the wood above 
ground being nearly disintegrated) decayed oak stump, near the 
surface of the ground. One queen was of the normal neoteinic type, 
developed from a nymph of the second form, being 9 millimeters in 
length, with wing pads present. The compound eyes were pig- 
mented, and the antennae consisted of 16 segments. The other three 
neoteinic queens were of a type not previously found in colonies by 
the writer. These queens, of a straw-colored pigmentation, were 
7, 6, and 5 millimeters in length (measured while alive), respectively. 
In shape the abdomens are oblong quadrate, like those of the true 
queens. The antennae comprise 15 segments, which have a tinge of 
grayish-brown pigmentation to the dorsal surface. No wing-pads or 
rudimentary buds are present. The compound eyes are without 
pigmentation. The head, thoracic segments, and tergal and sternal 
"nota" (chitinized tergal and sternal areas) are not as broad as in 
neoteinic reproductive forms developed from nymphs of the second 
form. In these larval queens, as in true queens, the segments of the 
abdomen are less projecting than in normal neoteinic queens, and the 
"nota" are less semicircular. The mouth parts and legs are also less 
gross in structure. Indeed, these queens more nearly approach the 
true queens as to these points. (PL XIV, c.) They were prob- 
ably developed from larvae of the sexed forms. The outline of rows 
of numerous eggs in various stages of development could be seen 
through the body tissue under a high-power Zeiss binocular. The 
body tissue of normal neoteinic queens is coarser and thicker. This 
is the first time that reproductive forms of apparently different types 
have been found in the same colony of this species. The colony of 
termites in which these queens were found was small in numbers. 
All the queens found by the writer in July, 1914, at Falls Church 
were captured within an area of ground less than an acre in extent. 
