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fanciful like " Punic." Perhaps the party who got up this 

 name had in mind the ancient " Punic faith " in which this 

 race resembles that of the old Carthaginians — for when you 

 least expect it, i.e., when they have been well, and even 

 royally treated, they will sally out and cover the manipulator 

 with their tiny javelins. They carry in more propolis than 

 any other race, and are poor winterers. I handled several 

 hundred colonies two different seasons in Tunis ; took some 

 to the Orient with me, also had them tested in Palestine, and 

 I tried them in Munich, and came to the conclusion that in no 

 way do they excel Cyprians, and in some, points they are 

 behind that race ; would therefore advise to let Tunisian 

 (Punic bees) quite alone." 



