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RECORDS np niF ArSTRAT.TAX MrSFTM. 



Oil Warrior Tslaiul, Tones Strait, ('apt. Dnitioiit D'Uiville" saw in 

 IS-iO, 'rr'nhirua shells used as water tanks, being set in pairs to catch the 

 <lrip from Pandanus trees, as Flindei'S described. His illustration is liere 

 reproduced, 





Fi.^Lire I. tiinnl clunis set in p.iirs, serxiiii; as tanlcs, lo catcli tlu ilrip Irdiii I'.inilaiuis 

 trees. Warrior Island. Tdrrcs Strait, 181(1, 



Specimens Hgured (PI. xxvii). were collected by niyself on (Iroen 

 Island, off Ciiiiiis. One is 2 feet iJ inclics long, the pedal gape has disap- 

 peared, and the lateral tcrtli, though still in existence, are conijiarati vely 

 slight. IMic otlici' is ten iiudies long ami lias ii consiilcrable pedal gape. 



Dumoiit D'Urville— Voy. Pole Sud.. ix., IS^e. p. 235, pi. clxxxviii. 



