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with honey and the rest with their brood, like other honey bees, 

 and kept separate. When interfered with or disturbed, they 

 would buzz about one's ears and nostrils, but in other respects 

 they are perfectly harmless and may be easily handled. 



Since writing the above I have been taken by surprise by Mr. 

 Benton, a good authority on Bee Culture. His visit to Kuru- 

 negala is for the purpose of hunting up the Bambara (Apis 

 Dorsata). A narration of his valuable experience has afforded 

 me much information, and I indulge in the hope that 

 this will enable me to compete with my difficulties more 

 successfully in the future. 



A person of Mr. Benton's acknowledged ability and ex- 

 perience would do much for Ceylon in opening up a branch of 

 industry so easily conducted and yielding so large a return^ 

 but of which the natives are so lamentably ignorant. 



