ENTOMOLOGY S19 
INSECTA 
ISOPTERA ! 
KALOTERMITIDAE 
Kalotermes (Neotermes) aburiensis (Sjéstedt) 
Neotermes aburiensis Sjéstedt, 1926, K. Svenska Vet. Ak. Handl., (3) III, No. 1, p. 39 (soldier; 
Aburi, Gold Coast). 
LrpertaA.— Ghanga, from a nest in a log of firewood brought in from the 
forest, September 18, 1926. The intestinal tract of these termites contained 
flagellates of two species, as well as numerous spirochaetes, but no gregarines. 
TERMITIDAE 
Macrotermes (Bellicositermes) natalensis (Haviland) 
Termes natalensis Haviland, 1898, Jl. Linn. Soe. London, Zool., X XVI, p. 383, Pl. XXIII, figs. 7-10 
(winged adults, soldier, worker; Natal). 
Amplitermes natalensis Sjéstedt, 1926, K. Svenska Vet. Ak. Handl., (3) III, No. 1, p. 90. 
Macrotermes (Bellicositermes) natalensis Emerson, 1928, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., LVII, 
p. 447, fig. 14, map 8, Pl. XXIII, fig. 1, and Pls. XXIV, XXV, and XXVI. 
Termes tumulicola Sjéstedt, 1899, Ent. Nachricht., X XV, p. 34 (winged adult, soldier, and worker; 
Liberia, Togo, and Natal). 
Liperta.— Zeanschue, September 1926. Monrovia, large soldiers freshly 
dug up and offered for sale as food in the market, July 1926. Du River (Camp 
No. 3), from a large mound-shaped clay nest, August 4, 1928. 
A nest of this species was opened at our camp on the Du River. It was a 
conical mound of clay, about seven feet high, situated in a clearing of the 
forest (Nos. 467 to 469). Five successive zones could be distinguished in 
this structure, as follows (Text Fig. No. 3): (1) An outer zone consists 
of very wide galleries, the chief function of which appears to be to insulate the 
inner parts of the nest, that is to protect them against the excessive heat of the 
sun. Near the top of the mound there is a very large open space which continues 
downward to the core of the nest by means of some very wide chimneys, evi- 
dently for ventilating purposes. (2) Next comes a protective zone of compact, 
hard clay, traversed by very narrow galleries and with a few, small fungus 
gardens. In this zone were found a number of large, physogastric beetle larvae, 
each of them in a gallery or small cavity by itself; also a few adult carabid 
beetles, which may belong to the same species as the larvae. These beetles as 
well as the larvae are evidently predators, feeding upon the termites. (3) A 
zone of spacious cavities, filled with mushroom gardens, follows. This zone is 
widest in the lower portion of the mound. A number of staphylinid beetles were 
found in the remains of old mushroom gardens, as well as a wingless phorid fly, 
Puliciphora spinicollis Schmitz. According to Father H. Schmitz (1929, Rev. 
Zool. Bot. Afric., XVIII, 1, p. 39) this phorid fly is, however, not a true ter- 
1 The species of termites here listed have been determined by Prof. Alfred Emerson, of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago. 
