American bee journal . stralia to New (iuinea, and to theleast important of the island groups inthe Pacific Ocean. North of this nar-row belt lie those districts of Arabia,India, and Eastern Asia, which wereamongst the earliest inhabited parts of Written for the Australasian Bee Journal BY T. J. MCLVANY. by Latrielle Apis indica, A. sirialis, andA. dorsala ; but a closer inquiry seemsto indicate that these are not separatespecies, but onlj varieties of the Apisvidifica. I do not know if this pointis as yet quite settled to the satisfac-tion of scientific men ; but at all events,the A2ns dorsal
American bee journal . stralia to New (iuinea, and to theleast important of the island groups inthe Pacific Ocean. North of this nar-row belt lie those districts of Arabia,India, and Eastern Asia, which wereamongst the earliest inhabited parts of Written for the Australasian Bee Journal BY T. J. MCLVANY. by Latrielle Apis indica, A. sirialis, andA. dorsala ; but a closer inquiry seemsto indicate that these are not separatespecies, but onlj varieties of the Apisvidifica. I do not know if this pointis as yet quite settled to the satisfac-tion of scientific men ; but at all events,the A2ns dorsala, of which we hearmost in Southern India, in Ceylon, andin the eastern islands, is a very re-markable insect, and seems to differmore in size, chaiacter and habits Confining our attention for the pres-ent (as we have done in precedingpapers in regard to South America andto Africa) to that portion of the tropi-cal zone which extends abou 10- northand south of the equator, and tracingthis belt eastward from the coast of. Climbing Aflcr Apis Dorsala. the globe, and into which the honey-bee had found its way, and where theuse of honey and the traffic in bothhoney and beeswax seem to have beenestablished long before the earliestpages of history were written. The Egyptian bee (Apis fasciala ofLatrielle) appears to be the varietywhich extended itself most extensivelyeastwards, through Arabia, CentralAsia, north of the Himalayas, and intoChina. The peninsula of India proper,south of the Himalayas, is said by to possess three indige-nous species of the genus apis, named from the European honey-bee, thanany other variety we have heard of. it is now some eight or nine yearssince Mr. 1). A. Jones, of Canada, tooksteps to ascertian the practicability, orthe reverse, of importing the EastIndia variety of the honey-bee. , who was sent out by him toCeylon, in his first report wrote:Apis dorsala is a wonderful bee,whether it can be domesticated or builds in the o
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