494 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 
PECTEN PALLIUM, Line. 
Reeve, loc. cit., pl. xvii., fig. 63. 
One valve from the lagoon beach. 
This species appears to be widespread through the tropical 
Pacific. Cuming found it at Marutea, Paumotus. It is repre- 
sented in this Museum from San Christoval, Solomons; Erromanga, 
New Hebrides; New Caledonia; Tonga; and the Gilberts. 
P.nove-guinee, T. Woods, a Pleistocene fossil from Hall Sound, 
British New Guinea, is reduced to a synonym of P. palliwm by Prof. 
R. Tate. 
PECTEN DISTANS, Reeve. 
Kobelt, Conch. Cab., Pecten, 1885, p. 228, pl. xli., fig. 2. 
One valve from the lagoon beach. 
New Caledonian specimens occur in the Museum series. 
PECTEN MADREPORARUM, Sowerby 
Sowerby, Thesaurus Conch., i., 1847, p. 68, pl. xiv., fig. 68. 
One specimen from the lagoon beach. 
Also represented in the Museum from Hood Lagoon and 
Tupuselei, British New Guinea; Cape York, Queensland ; and 
New Caledonia. This species appears to be universally but 
erroneously ascribed to Petit. It is a perverse fate which credits 
an author, who was the first to energetically protest against manu- 
script names, + with indulging in the practice himself. Sowerby’s 
locality, the Red Sea, as well as his authority, requires confirma- 
tion. 
HINNITES, sp. 
Attached to sheets of dead coral, and associated with the 
Brachiopod Thecidea maxilla, were several adherent valves of a 
species of Hinnites, too imperfect for specific determination. 
PrERIA PEASEI, Dunker. 
Dunker, Conch. Cab., Avicula, 1872, p. 24, pl. viii., fig. 1. 
Attached (as mentioned ante p. 308) in great numbers to the 
branches of Plexawra antipathes. 
The species was described by Pease} under the thrice pre-occupied 
name of Avicula radiata, from the Gilberts. Schmeltz, who considers 
A. cypsellus, Dunker, a synonym, § reports it from Samoa. 
Preria cumMiIncu, Reeve. 
Reeve, Conch. Icon. x., 1857, Avicula, pl. iv., sp. 6. 
* 'l'ate—-Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. (2), ix., 1894, p. 214. 
+ Petit—Revue Zool., ii., 1839, p. 316, and iii., 1840, p. 154. 
t Pease—Proc. Zool. Soc., 1862, p. 244. 
§ Schmeltz—Mus. Godeffroy Cat., v., 1874, p. 176. 
