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mitophile. In the upper part of the nest, cavities similar to those of the mush- 
room gardens were filled with accumulations of blackish refuse, amidst which 
were living some dipterous maggots and a brown beetle larva (probably of a 
carabid). (4) The core of the nest consists of flattened cavities in moist clay 
and contains the brood, 7. e., the eggs and larvae of the termites. Two species 
of termitophilous beetles were seen running freely among the brood. (5) In the 
lower part of the core was found the royal chamber, a spacious, flattened cavity 
in the center of a thick lump of hard clay, quite distinct from the remainder of 
the nest, so that it can be removed as a whole. The chamber contained one very 

Text Fiaure 3. — Schematized longitudinal section of termitarium of 
Macrotermes natalensis (Haviland). The numbers refer to the five zones de- 
seribed in the text 
large gravid female and one dedilated male; also many workers and a few soldiers, 
as well as a minute, white, jumping Collembole. 
Brxictan Conco.— Irumu, from a broad, mound-shaped, bare termita- 
rium, about 5 ft. high, in the savanna, July 2, 1914. 
This termite is one of the most common species throughout the Ethiopian 
Region, from Dakar and Eritrea to the Orange Free State; it occurs also in 
Madagascar. 
Macrotermes (Macrotermes) gabonensis (Sjéstedt) 
Termes gabonensis Sjostedt, 1900, K. Svenska Vet. Ak. Handl., XXXIV, No. 4, pp. 72, 73, 92, 
218, 222, and 235, Pl. III, figs. B1—B2 (soldier and worker; Agoncho, Gaboon). 
Macrotermes (Macrotermes) gabonensis Emerson, 1928, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., LVII, p. 445, 
fig. 12. 
Termes miilleri Sjéstedt, 1898, Ent. Tidskr., XIX, p. 205 (soldier and worker; Angoncho, Gaboon). 
Macrotermes miilleri Sjéstedt, 1926, K. Svenska Vet. Ak. Handl., (3) III, No. 1, p. 76 (winged adult). 
BEetGian Conao. — Banalia, soldiers offered for sale as food, in the native 
market, December 7, 1913. 
Acanthotermes (Pseudacanthotermes) spiniger (Sjéstedt) 
Termes (Acanthotermes) spiniger Sjostedt, 1899, Ent. Tidskr., XX, p. 278 (soldier and worker; 
Umangi, Belgian Congo). 
Pseudacanthotermes spiniger Sjéstedt, 1926, K. Svenska Vet. Ak. Handl., (3) III, No. 1, p. 68. 
