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FOREIGN BEES. 
species that is found in the Grecian Archipelago. 
In its physical characters it nearly resembles our 
own hive-bee ; the difference consists in the two 
first rings of the abdomen, (except at their posterior 
edge) and the base of tlio third, being of a pale red- 
dish colour, instead of a deep brown. 
The continent of Africa, in all its widely extended 
regions, seems well stocked with bees, particularly 
towards the sea-coast. In lower Egypt their cultiva- 
tion forms the employment of many of the poorer 
classes during a great part of the year. During the 
inundation of the Nile, the cultivators, unable to find 
pasturage for their bee- stocks in the lower province, 
transport them in boats to upper Egypt, resting 
occasionally by the way, to allow the industrious in- 
sects an opportunity to forage — and thus they reap 
a double harvest. The insect itself, supposed to be 
the A, Fasciata of Latreille, hears a considerable re- 
semblance to that cultivated in Greece. On the 
western coast, where it is intersected by the Senegal, 
separated as this region is from the more northerly 
parts of Africa by mountains and deserts which form 
an insuperable barrier to the passage of the inferior 
classes of animals, we find what we are assured is 
another species of bees, viz., A. Adansonii. It has, 
however, a very near resemblance to A. Ligustica ; 
its difference being in the two first rings of the ab- 
domen, and the anterior half of the third, which are 
of a pale chestnut colour. In the neighbourhood of 
the Gambia, a species of small black bees is found in 
the woods— r-in all likelihood the same with those 
