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are in the Bashahr district of the Punjab, where a 
variety of Apis mellifica is found, and special pro- 
vision is made for the bees in the construction of the 
houses. These have roofs extended to form a wide 
verandah. The walls are of wooden bars, leaving 
square openings, into which earthenware hives are 
fitted. The door behind admits the swarm, and also 
permits of the removal of the harvest, the bees enter- 
ing by a hole in front, beneath which is a small 
earthenware alighting-place. The men devote a con- 
siderable part of their time to the care and protection 
of the bees. There is interest in the obseiwed fact 
that, where the same species of native bee is found, 
both in the hills and on the plains, the variety in- 
habiting. the colder climate is the more produc- 
tive. 
Apis indica is very widespread, being not only 
common in Hindostan, but in the islands of the East 
Indian Archipelago, notably in Java. It is a small 
bee, black, with grey pubescence, with the first and 
second abdominal segments of a brown red; but the 
colour-bands are distinctly yellower on the lower 
grounds, or where temperature runs higher. It builds 
comb between Jin. and Jin. in thickness, with six worker 
and five drone-cells to the linear inch. It has been 
successfully cultivated by a few Europeans, in frame 
hives, on the hills, and both super and extracted honey, 
its product, have been exhibited. It is kept by the native 
Hindoos in rude hives of various builds, but frequently 
made like a drainpipe, of bamboo, and shut at the 
end by board. These hives are often placed, by the 
natives, beneath the gutters of their houses, they 
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