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BRITISH BEES. 
and marked to have caught the eye. It is as lithe and 
active as a Malay, as black as a negro, and as hairy as 
a gorilla, looking like a little ursine sweep. 
The genus Eucera, of which we have but one repre¬ 
sentative, although considerably more than fifty species 
are known, has not so wide a range as might be ex¬ 
pected from their numbers. Our own is found through¬ 
out Europe and in Algeria. Other species occur in 
Russia, the Morea, Albania, Dalmatia, and Egypt. In 
Asia some are found in Syria, and at Bagdad; and 
from the New World they have been sent from Cayenne 
and the United States. 
The genus Anthophora, to which the genus Saropoda 
is very closely allied,—so closely, indeed, that by the 
celebrated hymenopterologist Le Pelletier de St. Far- 
geau the species of both are incorporated together,— 
has, even as now restricted, a world-wide dissemination, 
and numbers nearly a hundred and fifty species. Se¬ 
veral of our own occur throughout France and Italy 
and the whole of northern Europe, and even among the 
Esquimaux in the arctic regions, showing that a bridal 
bouquet may be gathered even there; for where bees 
are flowers must abound. 
The genus in other species shows itself in the south 
of Europe, viz. in Spain, Sicily, the Morea, and Dal¬ 
matia; by way of Syria and Arabia Felix it passes down 
to Egypt and occurs in Nubia and also in Algeria. It 
dots the western coast of Africa at Senegal and Guinea, 
and has been discovered in the Canaries, and again 
makes its appearance at the Cape of Good Hope, 
rounding it to Natal. It travels round the peninsula 
of India, being found at Bombay, in Bengal, and in the 
island of Ceylon, and passes onward by way of Hong- 
