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Riley k Howard.— “Insect Life,” v. 5, p. 201. 
Receiving from New Mexico sections of an apple-tree showing 
injury by white ants (“probably Termes flavipes ”), precautions 
and remedies are suggested to correspondent. 
Stokes, A. C.—“Science,” Nov. 17, 1893, v. 22, p. 273. 
An important illustrated article on “The Sense Organs on the- 
Legs of our White Ants (Termesflavipes, Roll).” 
1894. 
Kellicott, L>. S.—Ent. News, Dec., 1894, v. 5, p. 314. 
Notes of injuries to timbers by white ants (Termes flavipes) 
in the Electrical Building at the Ohio State University, Colum¬ 
bus, Ohio, Heavy posts and timbers supporting machinery were 
riddled by these insects and began to give way. Rested upon 
cement below an asphalt floor,’ and had been in place about 
four years. Although white ants were found abundant in rubbish 
not far away, it was thought probable that those infesting these 
timbers had been brought into the building with the wood. 
Smith, J. B.—Rep. N. J. Exper. Station, 1892, p. 494. 
Has found white ants in roots of blackberries which had been 
attacked by borers and were beginning to decay. Although they 
sometimes attack living plants, generally speaking, they “are im¬ 
portant factors in nature’s routine, reducing to dust fallen trees 
and stumps.” bigures the different forms of Termis flavipes. 
