Note 376 — Chapter XI · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF LAND MOLLUSCA (continued)—THE ETHIOPIAN, NEARCTIC, AND NEOTROPICAL REGIONS

It is by no means implied that unbroken land communication between India and Madagascar, across the Indian Ocean, ever existed. A series of great islands, whose remains are attested by the Chagos and other banks, would be quite sufficient to account for the results, as we find them. See especially Medlicott and Blanford, Geology of India, vol. i. p. lxviii.