MARINE PROVINCES. 



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ffalioHs venusta, on the coast of China; Littorina scabra and 

 H. sqitomata, in jS^. Australia; H. asinina, New Guinea; and 

 L. picta, at the SandAvich Islands. 



Bed *Sea (Erythrgean). Of the 818 niollusca of the Red Sea, 

 collected by Mac Andrew at Suez, three only are common to the 

 Mediterranean Sea.* 



The genera wanting in the Mediterranean, but existing in the 

 Red Sea, show most strikingly their diversity of character, and 

 the affinity of the latter to the Indian fauna. 



Pteroceras. 



Strombus, 8 sp. 



Rostellaria. 



Turbinella. 



Terebra. 



Eburna. 



Oliva. 



Ancillaria. Siphonaria. 



Harpa. Placuna. 



Ricinula. Plicatula. 



Magillus. Pedum. 



Pyramidella. Malleus. 



Parmophorus. Yulsella. 



N^erita. Perna. 



Limopsis. 



Tridacna. 



Crassatella. 



Trigona. 



Sanguinolaria. 



Anatina. 



Aspergillum. 



Other genera become aLundant, such as Conus, of which there 

 are 19 species in the Red Sea, Cyprea 16, Mitra 10, Cerithium 

 IT, Pinna 10, Chama 6, Circe 10. 



Per><.ian Gulf. The marine zoology of the Persian Gulf and 

 adjoining coast has not been yet explored. 92 species of shells 

 were picked up on the beach at Kurrachee by Major Baker, with 

 many others evidently new, but not in a satisfactory state for 

 description. 



Madagascar. Collections of marine shells have been made at 

 Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands by Sganzin, and at the 

 Sej'chelles b}' Dufo. The number obtained at the latter place 

 was 263, of which 220 were imivalves. Two of the univalves, 

 viz., Dolium galea and Cyj^rsea helvola, and two of the bivalves, 

 are found in the Mediterranean. 



IX. Australo-Zealandic Province. 



Most remote from the Celtic seas, this province is also most 

 unlike them in its fauna, containing many genera wholly unknown 

 in Europe, either living or fossil, and some which occur fossil 

 in rocks of a remote period. The province includes New Zeal- 

 and. Tasmania, and extra-tropical Australia, from Sandy Cape, 

 on the east, to the Swan River. 



Of the following genera some are peculiar, others attain here 

 their greatest development : — 



* Woodward is in error in crediting the statement that 73 out of 375 

 species collected in the Red Sea, by Ehrenberg and Hemprich are Medi- 

 terranean species. Fischer has shown that these 73 species are exclusively 

 Mediterranean forms and were probably collected on the Syrian coast or 

 at Alexandria. ■ 



