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ORCHESTIIDiE. 
from New Zealand to the northern coasts of America. 
Yet with this vast geographical range we are not aware 
that a single species has been recorded within the tropics 
or arctic regions : although northern Egypt and the coast 
of Algiers are mentioned by Savigny and Lucas. Dana 
and Stimpson in America have not taken them in tro- 
pical latitudes. 
Their common habitat is upon the sea-shore, out of the 
reach of the waves, but Dana has found them, and exotic 
species exist in the British Museum, which have been 
taken in shady woods some miles from the sea-coast, and 
Mr. Stimpson, the naturalist of the American Japanese 
expedition, informs us that he also has captured them in 
inland places. 
The Orchestim must be reckoned among our smaller 
shore- cleaners, feeding upon the offal left by the receding 
tide. Say has noticed of an American species, that when 
alarmed, the individuals will seize a portion of their 
food, and skip with it towards their holes in the sand, 
where they can devour it at leisure. 
The accompanying vignette of figures, in the costume 
of the South of Wales, is by the promising pencil of our 
friend Mr. Sydney Whiteford. 
