Thanks are due to novelist Eli Cantor for suggesting that an island could be as terrorized by an invasion of mutant insects as by killer sharks off its beaches.

The author gratefully acknowledges the studies in animal behavior of Dr. B. Faber of the American Museum of Natural History and Columbia University; and the publications on insect sociobiology of Professor E. O. Wilson of Harvard University. Any errors of science are the author’s own, as is the fictional hypothesis of the insect mutation imagined in these pages.

—G.A.D.