70 BRITISH BEES. 



and marked to have caught the eye. It is as lithe and 

 active as a Malay, as black as a negro, and as hairy as 

 a gorilla, looking like a little ursine sweep. 



The genus EUCERA, of which we have but one repre- 

 sentative, although considerably more than fifty species 

 are known, has not so wide a range as might be ex- 

 pected from their numbers. Our own is found through- 

 out Europe and in Algeria. Other species occur in 

 Russia, the Morea, Albania, Dalmatia, and Egypt. In 

 Asia some are found in Syria, and at Bagdad ; and 

 from the New World they have been sent from Cayenne 

 and the United States. 



The genus ANTHOPHORA, to which the genus Saropoda 

 is very closely allied, so closely, indeed, that by the 

 celebrated hymenopterologist Le Pelletier de St. Far- 

 geau the species of both are incorporated together, 

 has, even as now restricted, a world-wide dissemination, 

 and numbers nearly a hundred and fifty species. Se- 

 veral of our own occur throughout France and Italy 

 and the whole of northern Europe, and even among the 

 Esquimaux in the arctic regions, showing that a bridal 

 bouquet may be gathered even there; for where bees 

 are flowers must abound. 



The genus in other species shows itself in the south 

 of Europe, viz. in Spain, Sicily, the Morea, and Dal- 

 matia; by way of Syria and Arabia Felix it passes down 

 to Egypt and occurs in Nubia and also in Algeria. It 

 dots the western coast of Africa at Senegal and Guinea, 

 and has been discovered in the Canaries, and again 

 makes its appearance at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 rounding it to Natal. It travels round the peninsula 

 of India, being found at Bombay, in Bengal, and in the 

 island of Ceylon, and passes onward by way of Hong- 



