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but often one or two project from the stones, having apparently taken up their abodes 
in natural hollows. One can usually see whether they are present or not under a stone, 
as, if they are, there are considerable sand-castings over and around it. I at first thought 
that these must be due to some other animal, but found later that, if there is one, there 
are usually about half-a-dozen under each stone.” A further collection was made from “the 
sand of the lagoon mostly by Wiringili Island” and another belonging to the variety 
opacus from under overhanging, branching Porites and Madrepora, amongst the lagoon sand. 
A fourth collection was taken amongst the Maldive Islands, in shallow water at Goidu, 
another at Hulule, Male Atoll, and yet another collection at Maduwari, South Mahlos, in 
the Maldives. The body-cavity of one specimen, I opened, was lined by a remarkable 
fibrous meshwork, which lay inside the longitudinal muscles and seemed tough and resistant. 
Locality. Minikoi, Laceadive Islands, and Maduwari, South Mahlos, Hulule, Male Atoll, 
and Goidu, Goifurfehendu Atoll, Maldive Islands, also recorded from Blanche Bay, New 
Britain, and the Isle du Phare, Nouméa, from the Philippines and from Venezuela. 
18. Sipunculus indicus Peters. 
Selenka. Die Sipunculiden, 1883. 
Two specimens, one mutilated and the other 47 cm. in length, from Minikoi, and others 
from the Maldives. It is described as “living in ‘the sand’ of the lagoon-flat in long holes 
open to the surface. It is called by the natives ‘vembolu. The native method of catching 
them is to push a long thin stick into their holes. This penetrates the body of the animal 
and by this means the beast is held firm whilst it is being dug out by the hands. It is 
then by means of the stick turned completely inside out, and in this condition is stuck 
on a stick and used as bait for day fishing in the lagoon.” 
Locality. Minikoi, Laccadive Islands, from Hulule, Male Atoll, and from Goidu, 
Goifurfehendu Atoll, in the Maldives. 
The species is recorded from Mozambique. 
19. Sipunculus vastus. Sel. and Biilow. 
Shipley. P. Zool. Soc. London, 1898, p. 469 and Willey’s Zoological Results, Pt. 11 
1899, p. 158. 
Locality. Several specimens of the variety albus were taken “from sand under stones of 
the boulder zone” at Minikoi, “mostly from the part between the large island and Wiringili.” 
Found together with Phys. pacificum. Others were taken from Hulule, Male Atoll, and 
a few young forms at Naifaro, Fadifolu Atoll. 
The species is recorded from Mauritius, Jaluit, Rotuma, Funafuti, Pigeon Island in 
New Britain, Lifu in the Loyalty Islands, and the Isle of Pines in New Caledonia. 
Other specimens of this species were “obtained under upstanding dead coral masses 
of the outer reef at the base of the beach. These are parts of the solid reef, which have 
been undermined by tidal action. They are bedded usually in sand rock, which easily 
disintegrates causing an accumulation of sand in which these forms live. With them 
Enteropneusta occur in considerable number but never in close proximity. Often under a 
raised block Sipunculoids alone are found on one side and Ptychodera on the other.” The 
