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high latitude of Lapland, which is higher than where 
even one of ours (viz. the M. centunculavis) is again 
found, which occurs in Canada and at Hudson’s Bay. 
The genus also frequents southern Europe, in Spain, 
Sicily, and Albania, and in the East, in the Caucasus 
and Dalmatia. It traverses Turkey by Bagdad to India, 
having been captured in Nepaul, and it descends south¬ 
ward in the Indian peninsula, where it has been found 
at Bombay. From India it stretches to the Mauritius, 
thence across the Indian Ocean to Java, and thence to 
Hongkong and northern China. It then dips to the 
Philippines, and doubtless through the islands of the 
Indian Archipelago to Australasia, from which continent 
none are registered from its northern and eastern settle¬ 
ments, but species abound along its southern edge from 
Western Australia, through Adelaide to Tasmania. The 
genus has been brought from the West India Islands, 
St. Thomas’s, St. Croix, and Cuba : it is found upon the 
main from Mexico, descending to the Brazils. It skirts 
all the coasts of Africa, being discovered in Egypt and 
Algeria, along the western coast by the Gambia, Sene¬ 
gal and Sierra Leone to Guinea, and the island of Fer¬ 
nando Po, and then again occurs at the Cape of Good 
Hope. Ascending the eastern coast by Natal, it stretches 
to Abyssinia. The species are very abundant in India, 
Africa, and Australasia. 
The genus Anthidium, although very numerous in 
species, and differing more remarkably in form amongst 
themselves than most other genera, has a far less ex¬ 
tensive range, no species having been found in Austra¬ 
lasia or India, although it occurs in Arabia, Syria, and 
Mesopotamia. Our own solitary species occurs in France, 
Italy, and the whole of northern Europe, extending to 
