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Our common white ant (Termes flavipes) has been several 
times reported to me for its injuries to buildings and other wood¬ 
work. A large portion of one side of a small farm house in Put¬ 
nam county was eaten out by it in 1887, and a small granary was 
nearly destroyed on the same premises; and in 1888 a similar oc¬ 
currence was reported from Yarna, Illinois, where the wood-work 
of some windows and the supports of a heavy chimney had been 
completely destroyed. 
S. E.-c 
