196 Mr. Cosmo Melvill on the 



In Polynesia alone Mr. Andrew Garrett* found no less 

 than 75 species himself, with many varieties. His valuable 

 paper is to be found in the Journal of Conchology, Vol. II.,. 

 1879, pp. 165 sqq. And in Moreton Bay, Queensland, 

 Mr. Brazier mentions Mr. Coxen and himself discovering 

 27 sp. — /. of Conch., 1879, p. 318. The same collector also 

 enumerates {Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, pp. 82-86) 39 species as 

 occurring on the shores of New South Wales. The late 

 Mr. G. F. Angas, who likewise collected largely in Australia,, 

 published a list of Cypraea at various times in Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1865-77, from that region, especially from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Port Jackson, in which about the same number 

 are reported. Again, in the list of Mollusca collected b\^ 

 Dr. Anderson, F.R.S., Superintendent of the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, in the islands of the Mergui Archipelago and 

 coasts of Tennasserim, 16 Cypraea are mentioned by Prof 

 Von Martens {Joiirn. Linn. Soc. Zool, Vol. XXL, p. 185 sqq.),, 

 1888. Of these, C. Saiilce {Gaskoin) from Elphinstone 

 Island, is the only rarity. Several tropical species, e.g- 

 lynx, Arabica, vitellus occur in the Bay of Yeddo, Japan 

 (Lischke). Swinhoe detected eight common species only at 

 Formosa, while Jickeli(/. B. Mai Ges. XI.) gives 30 species 

 as occurring in the Red Sea. Mr. R. Rossiter, exploring in 

 New Caledonia,^ mentions {Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. IV. VI.,, 

 pp. 817, 832) 60 species on those shores, whilst Mr. Philip P. 

 Carpenter only noticed 7 sp.2itFaind.m^(Proc. Zool Soc, iS6^). 



The figures above quoted must be taken with all reserve, 

 for there is every probability further researches in (d) and 

 (e) will raise the figures nearer those attained by (/). 



* News has only lately been received of the death of this celebrated con- 

 chologist after a lingering illness, aged 65 years, at his residence at Iluahine, 

 Society Islands. Mr, Garrett contributed several very valuable papers to 

 various learned Societies on the distribution of certain genera of Mollusca in the 

 I'olynesian Islands, and had amassed a very large collection, one half of which 

 (4,000 species) had been gathered by his own hands. 



'' Also cf. Crosse et Fischer, Les Mollusques de Nouvelle Caledonie. 



