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in our first section. The following are all with 
whose names we have at present met: native to 
Germany are the Luneburg Heath bees, the Car- 
niolan, and the Lower Austrian; a little further 
aficld we come upon the Herzegovinian and the 
Grecian; then the Cyprian, the Smyrnwan, and 
the Hgyptian—not to mention tho Asiatic and one 
or two other Indian species which scem incapable 
of domestication. The first of these, commonly 
culled simply the Heath bees, appear to be distin- 
guishable from our own in no particular as to anatomy 
or marking, but only as to habits. The Carni- 
olan (Avrainer) bees have whiter rings, and so have 
the Lower Austrian, but now and then an indi- 
vidual of the latter has a red mark upon the 
first ving. Of the remainder all that necd be said 
is that the Egyptian are a very distinctive and 
beautiful bee, and probably a separate species, 
though all do not allow this. The rings on their 
body, which are orange, are as clearly marked as 
those on wasps, and they are clothed all over with 
a white down. They possess two very striking pecu- 
harities—the first that they never use propolis, but 
substitute wax; the second, and a still more surprising 
one, that they appear to be accompanicd in every 
colony by a fourth order of individuals, consisting 
in about a dozen of what may either be called 
fertile workers or drone-producing queens, but 
differing from either of these classes as we find 
them with other bees, as they are like quecns in form, 
but smaller, and are marked, as are the drones that 
they and they only produce, by a yellow spot upon 
