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thorax) is of a dark colour. It was first noticed by Spinola as 
being peculiar to all parts of Liguria. Its first or original 
habitat was difficult to be ascertained in 1862, as during the 
previous ten years it had been artificially distributed to many 
new places. Although to be found in various parts of Italy, 
it is by no means general in that country. Besides the pro- 
vince of Liguria, the southern slopes of the Tyrolese and Swiss 
Alps would appear to have been its original home. 
3. The Italian bee, with yellow back plate—otherwise of the 
same size and colour as the last. It is found in southern 
France, Dalmatia, Banat, at Sicily, and in the Crimea, in the 
islands and on the coast of Asia Minor, and in the Caucasus, 
and in many of those places in common, partly with the Italian 
(No. 2), and partly with the German bee. 
4. The Egyptian bee (Apis fasciaca of Latreille). It is nearly 
one-third smaller than the German or Italian bee, its body 
coloured like the latter, and the back plate also yellow ; the 
hair of the chest and body whitish. Its proper habitat is 
Egypt, Arabia, and Syria, but it is found, with scarcely any 
observable difference, on the northern slopes of the Himalayas 
and in China. It was introduced into Germany in 1863, by 
the Acclimatisation Society of Berlin, and thence into England 
in 1865. 
5, The specific African bee (Apis Adansonii of Latreille) is of 
the same size and colour as the last, but differs in the greyish- 
yellow colour of the hair on the chest and body. It is spread 
over the whole African continent, with the exception of Algiers 
and Egypt, from Abyssinia and Senegambia to the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
6. The remarkable black Madagascar bee (Apis unicolor of 
Latreille) is something smaller than the German bee, all dark 
coloured, and its hairs black. It is confined to Madagascar 
and the Mauritius. 
With reference to the countries of the New World, North 
and South America, and Australasia, Dr. Gerstaecker asserts that 
in none of them were any species of the genus Apis found until 
they had been imported from Europe. He gives the dates of 
importation into Florida, North America, as 1763; thence to 
Kentucky in 1780, and to New York in 1793; into Brazil, 
South America, in 1845, Rio Grande in 1853, and to Buenos 
Ayres (from Chili) in 1852. Into Mexico and central America 
