Genus Cyprcea. 



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(VIII.) Geographical Distribution. — Mr. A. R.Wallace's'' 

 six regions are, in the subjoined table, slightly modified, 

 especially as regards (^), which here must be under- 

 stood to comprise Europe alone, with the whole of 

 the Mediterranean and the Azores and Madeira ; {e) 

 Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and the Fiji Isles 

 alone ; while (/) becomes much the largest and most 

 important subdivision, embracing the Red Sea, Persian 

 Gulf, India, the East Indies, and the whole of the rest of 

 Polynesia. The extremely wide distribution of many of 

 the commoner species of the genus causes the above 

 alterations to be necessary, let alone the fact that Mr. 

 Wallace's regions were proposed by him more with a view 

 to the inhabitants of the land than of the sea. Of about 

 ten or eleven species the locality is altogether doubtful. 



^"Geographical Distribution of Animals," by A. R. Wallace, F.R.S. 

 &c. 2 vols., 1876. 



