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FOREIGN BEES. 
Besides the Apis Melliftca, or common domestic 
bee of Europe, aud the genera Bombus and Apathus, 
or humble-bees in their several species, there are 
numerous other kinds of the social Apidee to be met 
with in different and distant regions of the earth, of 
which some notice may be acceptable to our readers. 
We must premise, however, that the present Btate 
of our knowledge of this portion of natural history 
is very imperfect and unsatisfactory, drawn, as it 
must necessarily be, from the accounts of travellers, 
to whom it was a subject of very inferior interest, 
and whose descriptions of the insects are generally 
so indistinct, that it is nearly impossible to determine 
to what families they respectively belong. But 
before proceeding to give some account of the bees 
domesticated in different parts of the world, which 
in general are pretty nearly related to the Honey 
Bee, it may not be improper to make our readers 
acquainted with a few interesting exotic forms which 
claim a closer affinity to the tribe last treated of. 
The genus Eoglossa, to which we shall first advert, 
has many properties in common with the Humble 
Bees. As in them the hinder tibiaj terminate in two 
spines, and the females are provided with a spoon- 
shaped expansion for collecting honey. They differ 
from Bombus and Apathus in having the labrum 
