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divisions of the coasts of the globe. 1. The American or Occiden- 
tal including East and West America; 2. The Africo-Huropean 
including the coasts of Europe and Western Africa; and third, the 
Oriental, including the coasts of Eastern Africa, E. Indies, East- 
ern and Southern Asia, and Pacific. Besides these, there are the 
Arctie and Antarctic Kingdoms, including the coasts of the Frigid 
Zones, and in some places, as Fuegia, those of the extreme tem- 
perate zone. We add here, only in general —— that there is 
a remarkable similarity in the genera of Eastern and Western 
America, and an identity of some few SDD that the coast of 
Europe and Eastern Africa widely differ in Crustacea from 
pa the American or Oriental; that the species of the Oriental 
division have a great similarity in genera, and that numerous 
species of Crustacea of Eastern Africa, are identical with those of 
the Pacific. We pass by, for the present, the details on these points. 
We also omit the zoological characters of the Provinces here 
enumerated. Several of these Provinces are identical — those 
proposed by Milne Edwards, Prof. E. Forbes, and others 
far as possible, the names heretofore used, are retained. 
L OCCIDENTAL KINGDOM. 
‘A. Western SEcrIon. 
1. Torrid or Coral-Reef Zone. 
Pro Limits. Length in Miles. 
i: Panamian (torrid) 1° 6 to 17S os ‘ ; 1600 
2. Mexi n perees (N. subtortid) 174° w. to Californ. Penin., . 600 
8. eet “ —_(S. subtorrid) 1° s. to Cape Blanco, 43° s., . 200 
> North pacinige Zone. 
4, Sonoran nin, Californ, to 284°», . 550 
5. Diego* oi sets ian, fone! ate) 2840 n. to 844° n,, ‘ 450 
6. Dalitsthiins. (subtemperate) . y. to C. Mendoci: 48 
1. Oregon, (cold eannipetrhta) rita C. Me ioc . to Pats “Sound, (?) 480 
8. P ugettian, (subfrigid) pron Puget’s Sound to 55° or 56°, 1200 
3. South Temperate Zone. 
9. Gallapagos, (warm tem — Gallapag 
10. Perwian, (temperate) Fr : C. Maas: t = gn wie % 1500 
1l. Chilian, (subtemperate) 274° 5, to 700 
12. Araueanian, (cold temperate) . 38° 5, to ie or 750° 8, ‘ 900 
13, South Patagonian, (subfrigid) .  50°s, to Magellan Straits. 
. B. Eastern Szcrion. 
1. Torrid Zone. 
i 2 Key West & N. Yucatan 
1. Caribbean, (torrid) .  . ; Sift Soca da? trong ~ 
2. Floridan, (N. subtorri ; i Key West to27°n., . ‘ 2 
3. Brazilian “ae nbtawid) ee 15° 6 to 24°s. . f 2 600 
2. North Temperate Zone. 
4. Carolinian, (warmtemperate) . 21° nN. to 0. Ha 600 
5. Vargindiog (cold temperate) = ae to OC Cod, ee OOD 
6, A: cadian, (subfrigid)+ to E. Cape of Newf’d?d, 900 
* May possibly be united tiene shah ao 
+ Changed from Nova-Scotian in 
