38 Species of Genus Apis. 
SPECIES. RACES. VARIETIES. 
7 A. dorsata nigripennis, 
“Apis Indica, Fab. Latr. | 
pie ‘ ‘ 3 A. dorsata bicolor, 
Apis florea, Fab. 
Apis dorsata, Fab. Klug. 
A. dorsata zonata, 
Smith. 
Heath. 
Austrian. 
Common black, 
A. mellifica nigra. 
Carniolan or Krainer, 
German Bee. | 
A. mellifica fasciata, 
Egy ptian Bee. 
Syrian (?) 
South Palestine (?) 
Cyprian (?) \ 
Apis mellifica. 4 Italian (?) 
Greek (?) 
‘ Bonnat(?) 
Caucasian (?) 
China Bee. 
A. mellifica unicolor 
Latr, Madagascar. 
A. mellifica Adonsoni, 
q African Bee. 
In the Autumn of 1879, Mr. D. A. Jones, of Beeton, 
Ontario, Canada, i inaugurated the grandest enterprise ever 
undertaken in the interest of apiculture. This was nothing 
less than to visit Cyprus, Syria, and the more distant India 
and the East Indies, for the purpose of securing and intro- 
ducing into America such species and races of bees as gave 
promise of superior excellence. Mr. Jones procured the 
services of Mr. Frank Benton, a graduate of the Michigan 
Agricultural College, a fine linguist and skilled apiarist, to 
aid in this great undertaking. After visiting the principal 
apiaries of Europe, these gentlemen located at Larnica, in 
the island of Cyprus, where they established a large apiary 
composed of Cyprian and Syrian bees. The Cyprian bees 
were purchased on the Island, while the Syrians were pro- 
cured personally by Mr. Jones in Syria, The following 
June Mr. Jones returned to America with several hundred 
queens of these two races. Mr. Benton remained at Lar- 
nica to rear and ship more queens to Europe and Amer- 
ica. The following winter Mr. Benton visited Ceylon, 
Farther India, and Java, as Mr. Jones was determined to 
