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from comparison with specimens in the British Museum, 

 we are inclined to believe it to be Ajns caffra. Mr. Hurdis 

 supplies us with the foUowiag note : — " The honey bee is 

 common in the Bermudas, and may be seen in many of 

 the cottage gardens ; not in the straw-made hives of Eng- 

 land, but in square wooden boxes, ranged upon a wooden 

 bench. They mate honey of good quality, which sells at 

 the rate of two shillings per common quart bottle. 



"The bees near Hamilton draw largely on the sugar 

 warehouses in the town. The windows being constantly 

 open, they pass between the iron bars, and, finding every 

 hogshead and barrel bored with holes at each end, they 

 enter the packages by hundreds, and carry away no small 

 quantum of sugar in the year. 



"I was once at a large picnic party on Port's Island, 

 and, while lolling on the grass near the tables at which 

 the party had feasted, some one pointed out a magnificent 

 comb of the honey bee, in a miniature cavern, or recess, in 

 the rocky bank close by. It was about two feet in depth, 

 and was suspended from the upper surface of the rock, so 

 that you could lie on the grass and contemplate the busy 

 scene within three feet of you. It was a beautiful sight, 

 and proves that the bee does not require to be boxed up in 

 darkness, in a climate like that of the Bermudas. I cannot 

 pretend to estimate the weight of that comb, though I am 

 quite sure an ordinary beehive would not have con- 

 tained it." 



Mr. E. S. Wood informs us that the comb of the honey 

 bee is also found in the caves at Walsingham. 



A singularly formed insect (Evania appendigaster), which 

 has its small posterior body, joined by a lengthened and 



