SKORIKOW1 has published a map showing the distribution of the three main types of ordinary honey bees, Apis mellifera L., occupying the Palaearctic region, A. indica Fabricius, the Oriental, and A. adansoni, Latreille, the Ethiopian. Madagascar is inhabited by still another form, A. unicolor Latreille. Alpatov, of the University of Moscow, has published statistical studies of South African honey bees, separating two races, called A. adansoni and A. unicolor, the latter being the form with black abdomen and scutellum. But his A. unicolor came from near Cape Town, and were surely not the true unicolor, but the race which Buttel-Reepen (1906) named intermissa. This insect differs from A. unicolor in having bands of tomentum on the abdomen, these being usually conspicuous, but sometimes not evident, when the specimens are worn, or the abdomen is much contracted.