and Varieties of the Honey -Bee. 339 



1. North Germany (Berlin^ Neustadt - Eberswalde, Hartz, 



Erzgebirge). — Numerous specimens : queens, drones, and 

 workers. 



a. Unicolorous dark northern Bee. Seen on the crest of the 

 Erzgebirge, sparingly, at a height of 2800 feet ; in larger 

 quantity on the summit of the Brocken, at 3500 feet, in 

 Augiist 1856. 



b. One specimen of a worker, captured by King at the be- 

 ginning of this ceutur)", near Berlin, has on the second 

 abdominal segment a reddish-yellow basal band of one- 

 third of its length. 



c. Italian Bee of very recent times (imported). 



d. Crosses of the northern and Italian Bees, of very recent 

 date. 



2. South of France. — 3 specimens of workers. 



a. (2 sp.) Unicolorous northern Bee. 



b. (1 sp.) of early date (beginning of this century) ; Italian 

 Bee, with a reddish-brown scutellum. 



3. Andalusia (Staudinger, Waltl). — 6 specimens of workers. 



a. (5 sp.) Unicolorous northern Bee. 



b. (1 sp.) More densely clothed with yellowish hair than the 

 northern Bee ; a very small reddish-yellow point on each 

 side of the base of the second abdominal segment. 



4. Portugal (Hoflfmannsegg). — 3 workers, 1 drone. 



a. (2 sp.) Unicolorous northern Bee. 



b. (1 sp.) A narrow, transverse, yellow spot on each side of 

 the base of the second abdominal segment ; scutellum with 

 a yellowish -red apex. 



5. LiGURiA (Spinola). — 5 specimens, drones and workers. 

 Italian Bee (types of the Apis ligustica, Spin.). 



6. Sicily (Schultz). — 1 worker. 



Italian Bee with the scutellum almost entirely reddish -yellow. 



7. Valteline (Italian Switzerland). — 1 specimen*, of the year 



1858. Italian Bee. 



8. Botzen in the Tyrol (Kahr). — 2 specimens, 1861. 

 Somewhat smaller than the northern Bee ; first abdominal 



segment above, and the second to three-fifths of its length, 

 reddish yellow ; scutellum black. (At Trent the Italian Bee 

 only is known. Near Botzen the German form begins to 

 occur.) 



9. Dalmatia (Ehrenberg, Stein). — 4 specimens. 



a. (3 sp.) from Spalato, 1858. Unicolorous northern Bee. 



b. (I sp.) of earlier date. Somewhat smaller and more slender 

 than the German, more densely clothed with yellow hair ; 



* When not otherwise stated, the following descriptions are all of 

 workers. 



