Apodous Ampldhian from India. 



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littoral slopes of Indian seas appear to be part of a sublittoral 

 fauna which, though showing a certain circumtropical 

 tendency, is concentrated at certain definite points in the 

 Northern Hemisphere and is correspondingly deficient at 

 certain definite points in the Southern Hemisphere. The 

 striking points of concentration are (1) the West Indian 

 region, including to a less noticeable extent the Bay of 

 Panama, (2) tliat part of the North Atlantic that lies between 

 the Azores and Cape Verde and that washes the corresponding 

 shores of South-western Europe and North-western Africa, 

 and (H) Oriental seas from India to the Philippines (and 

 Japan); and the striking deficiencies are (1) the coasts 

 bounding the South Atlantic, and (2) the south-western 

 corner of the Indian Ocean. 



Table I. — SJwwing the Geograpliical Affinities of the Suhlittoral Hermit-crabs 



(if Ind:a. 



