. KEPOKT ON THE GASTEKOPODA. 679 



August 1874. Kandavu, Fiji. Inhabited by a land-crab. 



Habitat. — From the Natal coast (Krauss) and the Red Sea (Issel), across the whole 

 Indian Ocean to Polynesia and Australia (v. Martens). 



Sowerby (Thes. Conch., pt. 40, p. 112, sp. 41, pi. cccchdv. figs. 26-28, pi. cccclxviii. fig. 113) is 

 not quoted above, as his fig. 27 does not represent this species. The others perhaps do, but it is 

 impossible to be sure. 



No. IV. (See p. 132.) 



3. Nerita chamceleon, Linne. 



Nerita chamceleon, Linne, Syst. Nat. (ed. 12), p. 1255, No. 737. 



Chemnitz, Conch. Cab., vol. v. p. 310, pi. cxcii. figs. 1988, 1989 (1990, 1991, 

 excl.). 

 „ „ Dillwyn, Catalogue, vol. ii. p. 1003, sp. 57. 



n „ Wood, Ind. Test., p. 181, pi. xxxvi. fig. 60, and (Nerita stella) fig. 61. 



„ „ Lamarck, Anim. s. vert., vol. vi. (2) p. 192, sp. 9. 



„ „ Deshayes, Encycl. method., vers, vol. iii. p. 618, sp. 4, pi. ccccliv. fig. 3 (as Nerita 



bizonalis). 

 „ „ Hanley, Ipsa Linn. Conch., pp. 407, 543. 



,, stella, Eeeve, Conch. Icon., voL ix. pi. xv. fig. 64. 

 ,, chamaeleo, v. Martens, Moll. Mauritius, &c, p. 291. 



„ chamceleon, Sowerby, Thes. Conch., pt. 40, p. Ill, sp. 38, pi. cccclxiv. (ii. Gen.) fig. 22, 

 pL cccclxvii. (v. Gen.) figs. 94-99. 



February 1, 1875. Samboangan, Philippines. 10 fathoms. 



Habitat. — Madagascar and the Indian Ocean, to the Malay Archipelago (v. Martens). 



No. V. (See p. 172.) 



3. Purpura (Thalessa) pica, de Blainville. 



Martini, Conch. Cab., vol. iii. p. 269, pi. c. figs. 956-958. 

 Purpura pica, de Blainville, Pourpre, Nouv. Ann. du Mus., vol. i. p. 213, sp. 27, pi. ix. fig. 9. 



armigera, var., Quoy and Gaimard, "Astrolabe," Zool., voL iii. p. 556, pL xxxvii. figs. 17, 18. 

 pica, Kiener, Iconog., p. 48, sp. 29, pi. xi. fig. 31. 

 „ Lamarck, Anim. s. vert. (ed. Desh.), vol. x. p. 110, sp. 77. 

 „ Kiister, Conch. Cab. (ed. Kiister), p. 190, sp. 98, pL xxxi. figs. 9, 10. 

 „ v. Martens, MolL Mauritius, &c, p. 236. 



August 1874. Kandavu, Fiji. 



Habitat. — Manilla (Kiister) ; from the Malayan Archipelago, across the whole Indian 

 Ocean, to the east coast of Africa (v. Martens). 



The solitary specimen of this species was picked up some way inland occupied by a hermit crab 

 (Coenobita rugosa, M.-Edw.). 



