408 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 
Several empty shells from the lagoon beach. Hitherto only 
recorded from the Paumotus. 
Turbo pernouatus, Z., var. CALEDONICUS, Fischer. 
Pilsbry, Mau. Conch, x., 1888, p. 194, pl. xlv., fig. 99. 
A few dead shells were collected on the beaches. 
This variety, of a peculiar colour pattern, and angled more or 
less at the shoulder, is recorded by Fischer from New Caledonia, 
and Anaa, Paumotus. A specimen in this Museum from the 
Gilbert Islands shares this form and colour. Perhaps the typical 
form is replaced in the Central Pacific by this variety. 
TuRBO sETosuS, Gmelin. 
Pilsbry, op. cit., p. 195, pl. lxiii., fig. 32. 
Abundant on the east coast of the atoll at low water on the 
outer reef. 
Fischer cites this species from New Caledonia, Tahiti, Paumotus, 
Marquesas, and Gilberts; Schmeltz adds Samoa. It is also shown 
in this Museum from the Solomons. 
The opercula of the Funafuti examples agree with Fischer’s 
description,* but not with Pilsbry’s, being white and smooth, ex- 
cept on the distal margin, where they are brown and obliquely 
wrinkled. 
TuRBO ARGYROSTOMUS, Linne. 
Pilsbry, op. cit., p. 197, pl. xl., fig. 18; pl. xlii, fig. 41; pl. xlvi., 
fig. 8. 
This species was less abundant ; it replaced the preceding on 
the western side of the atoll. Fischer indicates it from Tonga, 
and from Anaa, Paumotus, and Schmeltz from Upolu. It is 
represented in this Museum from the Solomons, New Caledonia, 
Fanning Island, and Hawaii. 
ASTRALIUM PETROSUM, JJartyn. 
Pilsbry, op. cit., p. 234, pl. Ixiv., figs. 65, 66. 
I found this alive in the lagoon. 
Pilsbry records this from New Caledonia, Fiji, and Hawaii. 
An example from Woodlark Island, British New Guinea, is in 
this Museum. 
LeprorHyra LAETA, Montrouzxier. 
Pilsbry, op. cit., p. 258, pl. lxiii., figs. 29, 30. 
Common on the lagoon beach at Funafuti. 
Pilsbry records this from Australia, Solomons, Fiji, and New 
Caledonia. 
* Fischer—Coquilles Vivantes, 1873, Turbo, p. 57. 
