476 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 
One specimen from the Funafuti lagoon beach. 
It has been taken by Cuming at Marutea, Paumotus, and by 
Garrett at Tahiti. 
DAPHNELLA LYMNEIFORMIS, Kiener. 
Kiener, Coquilles Vivantes, Canaliferes, i., (n.d.), Pleurotome, p. 
62, pl. xxii, fig. 3. 
Two specimens from Funafuti appear to be the first recorded 
from the Central Pacific of this widely distributed form. 
DAPHNELLA PUPOIDEA, H. Adams. 
H. Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1872, p. 14, pl. iii., fig. 27; Tryon, 
loc. cit., p. 314, pl. xxxiv., fig. 92. 
Mangilia victor, Sowerby, Proc. Malac. Soc., i., 1894, p. 45, pl. 
iv., ug. 19. 
The single specimen from Funafuti is smaller and slighter than 
Adams’ type specimen, from the New Hebrides, now in the 
Australian Museum. Melvill and Standen report it* from Lifu, 
Loyalties, and I have obtained it at Port Moresby, British New 
Guinea, and at Panie, New Caledonia. Drillia pygmcea, Dunker, 
seems to be suspiciously like this species. 
DAPHNELLA THIASOTES, Melvill & Standen. 
Mangilia thiasotes, Melvill & Standen, Journ. Conch., viil., 1896, 
p. 284, pl. ix., fig. 21. 
A more complete account than is usually given by these authors 
enables me to satisfactorily identify a single specimen from Funa- 
futi with their species from Lifu. They confess, ‘‘ We know of 
no pleurotomoid shell which presents the same characteristics.” 
If specific characters were thus alluded to in a shell described as 
new, the remark would be superfluous, and I therefore presume 
that generic characters are intended. It is obvious that this 
species is a close ally of such a shell as Angas described as Pur- 
pura anomala, Prof. R. Tate first pointed out that this latter was 
one of the Pleurotomide, allied to M. vincenti, Crosse.+ In con- 
sonance with Tryon’s classification, it is therefore here termed 
Daphnella thiasotes. 
Conus LITERATUS, Linne. 
Tryon, loc. cit., p. 10, pl. ii., figs. 17 - 19; Garrett, Journ. Conch., 
i, 1878, pp. 354, 360. 
I purchased a specimen of this from a native at Nukulailai. 
* Melvill & Standen—Loc. cit., viii., p. 94. 
+ Tate—Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., v., 1881, p. 131. 
