. African invertebrates : a journal of biodiversity research. Invertebrates -- Africa; Biological diversity -- Africa; Biological diversity. OBSERVATIONS ON SOME SOUTH AFRICAN TERMITES. 381 •gardens in them fill them completely, and if removed resemble irregular and more or less flattened loaves. The queen-cell (PI. XXX, figs. 2-5) is situated in the great cavity and, in those nests explored, in a peculiar posi- tion and always on small pedestals. The cell itself is within an irregular lump of clay, forming a i"ough column at or towards one side of the nest. Its site is indicated in both
. African invertebrates : a journal of biodiversity research. Invertebrates -- Africa; Biological diversity -- Africa; Biological diversity. OBSERVATIONS ON SOME SOUTH AFRICAN TERMITES. 381 •gardens in them fill them completely, and if removed resemble irregular and more or less flattened loaves. The queen-cell (PI. XXX, figs. 2-5) is situated in the great cavity and, in those nests explored, in a peculiar posi- tion and always on small pedestals. The cell itself is within an irregular lump of clay, forming a i"ough column at or towards one side of the nest. Its site is indicated in both nests, of which diagrams and illustrations are given. In one of the two nests illustrated the pedestals of the queen-cell rested upon the stones which formed the bottom Text-fig. T. badius. A. Yertical section of nest lying over boulders, showing lateral fungus-garden excavations. B. Ground plan of same. (X -^^.) of the cavity, in another it was attached to a shelf which ran around the chamber at about half its height. In the thiee nests the joining of the upper part of the clay column to the cupola was perhaps more indefinite than as figured in the diagram, and the cell itself not quite so mncli a part of the wall. Between the two diagrams a considerable difference appears, and the diiference in the nest arrangement displayed is thought to be due to the difi^erent nature of the soil. In the case of the shallow nest it was found that underlying the site there was a layer of stone boulders. To some extent the soil between these had been removed and the spaces so made filled up with fungus-garden ; it was assumed that as the termites had not been able to excavate deeper they had made the larger horizontal extensions shown in the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Natal Museum (Pi
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