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fairly surmised, they are so very like our own that one is 
said to be absolutely identical throughout Europe and in 
Ohio. It passes still forward and occurs in Nova Scotia, 
Hudson’s Bav, and elsewhere in arctic America, where 
the botanist might almost herbalize through the agency 
of our insects, for the pollen they carry and still retain 
in cabinets would often indicate the plants which they 
there frequent. Thus those stern regions are not barren 
in fragrant and attractive beauties. We find it, too, in 
common with Sphecodes at Sydney, New South Wales, 
whence, doubtless, it passed to New Zealand, where it 
has been collected. About one hundred and fifty are 
registered. 
With the next genus, Dasypoda, I terminate the 
geography of the Andrenidce. Our own single species 
of these very elegant bees occurs throughout Trance and 
Germany, and abounds in Sweden. Other species, all ele¬ 
gant, occur in the Isles of Greece, in Albania, and the 
Morea; profusely at Malaga in Spain, and at the further 
extremity of northern Africa in Tunis, and in Egypt. 
Twenty are known. 
The genus Panurgus is the advanced guard of the 
true bees, for, although it still retains much of the ap¬ 
pearance and structure of the terminal genus of the pre¬ 
ceding sub-family of Andrenulce , it is strictly distinct, 
and well links the two sub-families together. This very 
peculiar form is limited in number of species and in 
distribution, for five only have been recorded. 
Our own species occur throughout France, Italy, Ger¬ 
many, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, 
and one of them has also been sent from Oran. The 
genus is small, and may have been overlooked in other 
countries, although its appearance is sufficiently distinct 
