8. _Mumbúco._—Black, and larger than the _Tubí_; the honey after being kept about an hour becomes as sour as lemon juice. 9. _Bejuí._—Very like the _Tubí_, but smaller; its honey is excellent. 10. _Tiubá._—Of the size of a large house-fly, and of a greyish black colour; its honey is excellent. 11. _Borá._—About the size of a house-fly, and of a yellowish colour; its honey is acid. 12. _Urussú._—About the size of a large bumble bee; the head is black and the body yellowish; it produces good honey. 13. _Urussú preto._—Entirely black, and upwards of one inch in length; it likewise produces good honey. 14. _Caniára._—Black, and about the same size as the _Urussú preto_; its honey is too bitter to be eatable; it is said to be a great thief of the honey of other bees. 15. _Chupê._—About the size of the _Tiubá_, and of a black colour; it makes its hive of clay on the branches of trees, and is often of a very large size; its honey is good. 16. _Urapuá._—Very like the _Chupê_, but it always builds its hive rounder, flatter, and smaller. 17. _Enchí._—This is a kind of wasp, about the size of a house-fly; its head is black, and the body yellow; it builds its hive in the branches of trees; this is of a papery tissue, about three feet in circumference; its honey is good. 18. _Enchú pequeno._—Very similar to the last, but it always makes a smaller hive; it also produces good honey. The first eleven of these honey-bees construct their cells in the hollow trunks of trees, and the others, either in similar situations or beneath the ground; it is only the last three kinds that sting, all the others being harmless. The only attempt I ever saw to domesticate any of these bees, was by a Cornish miner, in the Gold District, who cut off those portions of the trunks of the trees which contained the nests, and hung them up under the eaves of his house; they seemed to thrive very well, but whenever the honey was wanted, it was necessary to destroy the bees. Both the Indians and the other inhabitants of the country, are very expert in tracing these insects to the trees in which they hive: they generally mix the honey, which is very fluid, with farinha before they eat it, and of the wax they make a coarse kind of taper about a yard long, which serves in lieu of candles, and which the country people bring to the villages for sale. We found these very convenient, and always carried a sufficient stock with us; not unfrequently we were obliged to manufacture them ourselves, from the wax obtained by my own men; a coarse soft kind of cotton yam for wicks was always to be purchased at the different fazendas and villages through which we passed.