More than twenty-five years since (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., v.7, p. 287–288) I published an account of serious injury to living grape-vines in hot-houses in Salem, Mass., by our common species of whit ants. Termes flavipes. No further notice of their injury to living vetetation appears to have been taken unitl a few years ago, when Prof. J. H. Commstock, then government entomologist, state ( Rep. Comm. Agric., 1879, 207–8) that they had been found in Texas and Florida “girdling the bark of orange trees and guava bushes near the surface of the ground, or eating out the interior of sugar-cane and other plants.”