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BRITISH BEES. 
Finland. In southern Europe the genus inhabits Si¬ 
cily, Spain, the Morea, Albania, and Dalmatia, and is 
also very abundant in Southern Russia. In Africa it is 
found in Nubia and Algeria, and on its north-western 
edge in Barbary, whence it descends by the Gambia and 
Sierra Leone to the Cape of Good Hope, and thence 
reaches to Natal. It is then found in Chili, and cross¬ 
ing the South American continent occurs in the Brazils, 
whence it ascends to Cayenne, and, by way of Mexico, 
to the United States. The number of species recorded 
exceed a hundred. 
The remarkable genus Chelostoma is very limited in 
the numbers of its species, of which less than a dozen 
are known; as also in the extent of their distribution. 
Our own are found throughout northern Europe, as far 
as Lapland, and in Russia. In southern Europe they 
occur in the Morea, aud the genus has been discovered 
in Georgia in North America. 
The closely-allied genus IIeriades seems limited to a 
European habitation, and occurs only in our own soli¬ 
tary species, but it ranges, like the preceding, to the high 
latitudes of Lapland. 
Anthocofa seems limited to our own country and 
France, possibly only from its having been associated 
from similarity of general habit with the genus Osmia. 
Only one species appears to be known, but this has a 
world-wide celebrity, from the interesting account given 
by Reaumur, of its hanging its abode with symmetrical 
cuttings from the petals of the poppy. 
The genus Osmia, although not including such able 
artisans as Megachile, still has in its species very con¬ 
structive propensities. Indeed, all the bees which con¬ 
vey the pollen on the under side of the abdomen, are 
