ABSTRACT
The land Fauna points principally to the neighbouring continent, to North China, Corea, and Manchouria. The general rule, according to which the Fauna and Flora of islands are poorer than those of the neighbouring continent, from which they are usually derived, is hardly applicable to Japan. The sea Fauna is particularly rich in species and for the most part also in individuals, especially as regards fish, Crustacea and mollusca. All the more remarkable is the way in which the 30 species are made up, with their relations to the Indian, North American and North European Fauna. Several species of Beryx remind us of the Fauna of the East Atlantic islands, and four representatives of the genus Holocentrum of the squirrel-fish of the sea-coasts of East and West India. Towards the south this starfish disappears it seems, completely for it is not yet known with certainty to exist either in the Mediterranean or in the southern parts of the Atlantic Ocean.
