108 BRITISH BEES. 



Early travellers and historians describe many kinds 

 of honey made by these bees, native to the South 

 American continent, but they report nothing of the 

 peculiarities of the social economy of these insects, nor 

 whether they are as closely allied in this respect to Apis, 

 as they are in the collection of honey and wax. 



To enter into further detail relative to them would be 

 beyond the province of this work, and I have only given 

 this extremely superficial and brief notice of foreign 

 genera, to show what multitudes of others of this in- 

 teresting family await admiration and study, when some 

 proficiency has been acquired in the knowledge of our 

 own. 



