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high latitude of Lapland, which is higher than where 

 even one of ours (viz. the M. centuncularis) is again 

 found, which occurs in Canada and at Hudson's Bay. 

 The genus also frequents southern Europe, in Spain, 

 Sicily, and Albania, and in the East, in the Caucasus 

 and Dalmatia. It traverses Turkey by Bagdad to India, 

 having been captured in Nepaul, and it descends south- 

 ward in the Indian peninsula, where it has been found 

 at Bombay. From India it stretches to the Mauritius, 

 thence across the Indian Ocean to Java, and thence to 

 Hongkong and northern China. It then dips to the 

 Philippines, and doubtless through the islands of the 

 Indian Archipelago to Australasia, from which continent 

 none are registered from its northern and eastern settle- 

 ments, but species abound along its southern edge from 

 Western Australia, through Adelaide to Tasmania. The 

 genus has been brought from the West India Islands, 

 St. Thomas's, St. Croix, and Cuba : it is found upon the 

 main from Mexico, descending to the Brazils. It skirts 

 all the coasts of Africa, being discovered in Egypt and 

 Algeria, along the western coast by the Gambia, Sene- 

 gal and Sierra Leone to Guinea, and the island of Fer- 

 nando Po, and then again occurs at the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Ascending the eastern coast by Natal, it stretches 

 to Abyssinia. The species are very abundant in India, 

 Africa, and Australasia. 



The genus Anthidium, although very numerous in 

 species, and differing more remarkably in form amongst 

 themselves than most other genera, has a far less ex- 

 tensive range, no species having been found in Austra- 

 lasia or India, although it occurs in Arahia, Syria, and 

 Mesopotamia. Our own solitary species occurs in France, 

 Italy, and the whole of northern Europe, extending to 



