Smith . Catalo(;uk ok (iKxus Paktui.a. 449 



species, as mentioned l)y Morch. No doubt the Cumingian collection 

 has the Moorea shell under Morch's name." Mr. Pease wrote to Gar- 

 rett, A|)r. 21, icSyo : "/'. tceniata Morch, though credited to the 

 Fijis, does not belong there, as Morch writes me " (letter from Garrett 

 to I>r. Hartman, March 15, 1882). Hartman (Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sc. I'hila.. 1885, p. 215) observes: " Morch's habitat, Fiji Isles, for 

 tiTiiiata, is ])rc)b;il)l\ an error, as his examples were purchased of a 

 whale fisher." In one of Mr. Garrett's letters to Dr. Hartman 

 (March 15, 1882,) he .says: •'! send you three examples of a 

 Moorea Fartiila which agrees well with /*. tceniata in having the 

 white bands." 



4224. ^'Partii/a siiiiii/aiisVsG. (type) (typical, H. H. S. ), Coll. Pse., 

 Moorea." Twelve specimens. They agree in form and size with P. 

 tceniata (No. 4223), but only one is banded, the others being uniform 

 brownish or pale, in some examples with obsolete strigations ; ])erhaps 

 the banded specimen was included for comparison. The name is in- 

 cluded as a variety of F. tcBiiiata in Dr. Hartman' s published cata- 

 logues, but it was omitted, no doubt l)y an oversight, from his MS. 

 work. Mr. Garrett wrote, Feb. 10, 1879: "Carpenter considered 

 simulans to be a variety of tceniata. 1 suppose Mr. Pease wrote to 

 Mr. Morch in regard to the shell and from his reply was convinced 

 that it could not be simulans, so he published it as new. In his list of 

 Polynesian .shells (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 187 1) he neither records 

 it nor refers it to any other species." Mr. Garrett observes that it was 

 found in a valley, associated with e/o/ii^ata and vexillii»i {=^ si/tiiralis 

 Pfr.). 



4225. " Farti//a simulans P.se., Moorea." Four spet:imens, two 

 light I)rown and tl^e others white with laint spiral bands. 



4226. '■'■ Fartula simulans Pse., Moorea (Garr. dat.)." Two 

 specimens of an elongate, tapering, thin form, ai)proaching /^. elongata ; 

 one is white and the other light brown from oblicjue strigations. The 

 latter may be an immature form of the variet)' or hybrid, F. striolata 

 Pse. (No. 4228;. 



4227. '^Fartula spaJicea Rve., Eimeo, Moorea." Fourteen speci- 

 mens, all white or very pale brownish, in form ap])roaching the 

 typical ttciiiata but generally shorter. This is united with ticniata 

 in all 1 )r. Hartman's catalogues. See No. 4348. 



It appears that Pease, Cox and others referred one of the white 

 Solomon Island shells to spadicca. In memoranda which Dr. Cox 



