Atlantic north of 10 S., and no less than 38 are identical with species that also 

 belong to the fauna of the West Indies and neighbouring American coasts or 

 of the Atlantic approaches to the Mediterranean. 



This, so far as we know, is a larger number of species speaking only of 

 the fauna of moderate depths below 100 fathoms than the Indian Seas have 

 in common with any one of the Seas that are much nearer and with which 

 they are in much more obvious connexion, namely, the basins of the East 

 Indian Archipelago, the Seas of Japan, and those of Australasia, as the 

 following three lists will show. 



IV. List of Deep-Sea species, exclusive of true abyssal and nectic species, 

 common to the Seas of India and of the East Indian Archipelago. 



