BY RICHARD C. ROSSITER. 829 



New Caledonia ; Loyalty Islands ; Isle of Pines. It is very 

 common ; the variety icterina is found, but less common ; the 

 variety Barthelemiji is very rare, although I have several mon- 

 strosities obtained at Isle Nou, near Noumea, which have the 

 posterior end rostrated with the canal nearly closed, the base 

 in some is quite flat, others again are arched and excavated in 

 the centre. 



49. Aricia obvelata, Lam. 



Reeve, Conch. Icon., pi. 15, fig. 69. 



Sowerby, Thes. Conch., pi. 26, fig. 254-255. 



Loyalty Islands, very rare. Art Island, north New Caledonia 

 (Montrouzier.) 



50. Aricia ventriculus, Lam. 



Reeve, Conch. Icon., pi. 8, fig. 28. 



Sowerby, Thes. Conch., pi. 1, fig. 3-4. 



Cyprcea achat ina, Solander; cameola, Martyn (non Linn). 



Lifou and Mare, Loyalty Islands, very fine and large. 



Genus CYPR^EOVULA, Gray. 



51. Cypr^ovula Adamsoni, Gray. 



Reeve, Conch. Icon., pi. 24, fig. 135. 



Anse Vata, near Noumea, (Mr. BalansaJ. 



I know of only two specimens found since the first by Mr. 

 Balansa a few years ago, specimens white. 



Genus EPONIA, H. and A. Adams. 



52. Eponia annulata, Gray. 

 Reeve, Conch. Icon., pi. 21, fig. 114. 

 Sowerby, Thes. Conch, pi. 31, fig. 339, 340. 

 Isle Aniedee, New Caledonia, very rare. 



