ZOOLOGY. 115 
from comparison with specimens in the British Museum, 
we are inclined to believe it to be Apis caffra. Mr. Hurdis 
- supplies us with the following note :—“The honey bee is 
common in the Bermudas, and may be seen in many of 
the cottage gardens; not in the straw-made hives of Eng- 
land, but in square wooden boxes, ranged upon a wooden 
bench. They make honey of good quality, which sells at 
the rate of two shillings per common quart bottle. 
“The bees near Hamilton draw largely on the sugar 
warehouses in the town. The windows being constantly 
open, they pass between the iron bars, and, finding every 
hogshead and barrel bored with holes at each end, they 
enter the packages by hundreds, and carry away no small 
- quantum of sugar in the year. 
“TI was once at a large picnic party on Port’s Island, 
and, while lolling on the grass near the tables at which 
the party had feasted, some one pointed out a magnificent 
comb of the honey bee, in a miniature cavern, or recess, 
the rocky bank close by. It was about two feet in depth, 
and was suspended from the upper surface of the rock, so 
that you could he on the grass and contemplate the busy 
scene within three feet of you. It was a beautiful sight, 
and proves that the bee does not require to be boxed up in 
darkness, in a climate like that of the Bermudas. I cannot 
pretend to estimate the weight of that comb, though I am 
quite sure an ordinary beehive would not have con- 
tained it.” 
. Mr. R. S. Wood informs us that the comb of the honey 
_bee is also found in the caves at Walsingham. 
A singularly formed insect (Hvania appendigaster), which 
has its small posterior body, jomed by a lengthened and 
