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DISTRIBUTION AND BIOLOGICAL NOTES 
Collected by McGregor and Light on Septem- 
ber 29, 1920, from a hollow guava stub with 
living branches, near the Manila-North Road, in. 
Rizal Province, about 100 meters from the Rizal- 
Bulacan boundary monument. 
This small colony was discovered 
while searching for Neotemnes, 
are very common in guavas; in 
fact, a number of Neotermes 
specimens were collected at the 
same time, probably from tun- 
nels near the surface of the 
wood. In this connection it is 
interesting to note that P. luzo'n- 
ensis was also found in asso- 
ciation with, or at least in very 
close proximity to, Neotermes. 
The P. gracilis colony was found 
living in a mass of wood pulp, 
probably fsecal matter, similar 
to that used by Neotermes to 
plug up points of entry into a 
limb, and deposited by them 
also in some of their workings. 
At the time this Was thought tO Fig. 3. Prorhinoter- 
fig. 2. Prorhinoter- Neotermes waste, but I have mes oracaia sp - 
mes luzonensis sp. nov. Antenna in 
nov. Antenna in HOt D66I1 clDlG 10 VGriiy tillS outline to contrast 
outline for contrast p 0 j n t, and it seems probable that with that of p - 
with antenna of P. 1 luzonensis in pre- 
gracilis shown in WclS prOClUCGQ L)y til 6 Pi Oi - ceding figure. 
next figure, x 42. hinotermes colony. In the cen- x 42 - 
ter of this mass was a harder lump, apparently a royal chamber, 
in which was found a dealated adult male; the queen escaped 
or was overlooked. 
Genus LETJCOTERMES Silvestri sensu restricto 
Subgenus Leucotermes sensu stricto Holmgren. 
DIAGNOSIS 
Adult . 12 — Yellow to brownish yellow; head oval; clypeus flat, 
short, and broad; labrum broad and convex; fontanelle small, 
one or more species of which 
12 From Banks and Holmgren. I have not seen the adult. 
