560 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 
Murex raAmosus, Linne. 
Tryon, Man. Conch., ii., 1880, p. 95, pl.i., figs. 1, 2. 
A specimen was obtained by Mr. A. E. Finckh on one of the 
leeward islets of Funafuti. 
CyPR@HA BECKI, Gaskoin. 
Tryon, Man. Conch., vii., 1885, p. 91, pl. xvii., figs. 86, 87. 
One specimen collected by Mr. W. Poole on the lagoon beach 
of Funafuti. 
TURRICULA EXASPERATA, Gmelin. 
Tryon, Man. Conch., iv., 1882, p. 180, pl. liii, figs. 541-544, 
pl. liv., figs. 545 — 546. 
One dead shell dredged in 36 fathoms N. 30° W. of Pava Islet. 
MARGINELLA ISSELI, Vevill, var. ELLICENSIS, var. nov. 
(Fig. 78.) 
Shell small, ovate, white, smooth, with a 
buried spire. Aperture narrow, crescentic. 
Outer lip arching from and above the vertex, 
thickened without and finely crenulate within, 
channeled anteriorly. Inner lip with a heavy 
layer of callus edged abruptly. Columella 
with three oblique entering folds, the posterior 
one small. Length 1:4; breadth -64 mm. 
Dredged at 36 fathoms north of Pava Islet 
at 36 fathoms N. 30° W. of Pava Islet, and at 
150 fathoms off Beacon Islet (Funamanu) 
After much perplexity I have concluded not to separate this 
specifically from M. asseli, Nevill,* which agrees in size and shape 
but apparently differs by an additional fold on the columella, 
The example of that which Issel examined}; had not the crenulated 
lip of the type. Savigny’s work, containing the original descrip- 
tion, is unfortunately inaccessible to me. No distinction is 
apparent to me ketween this species and J/. nympha, Brazier, t 
from Sydney Harbour, 
Examples from Cape Sidmouth, Queensland, of what appears 
to be another variety of JM. isseli are before me. They agree in 
shape but differ by being 2 mm. in length, and by having five 
plications on the columella. 
* Tryon—Man. Conch., v., 1883, p. 40, pl. xi., fig. 39. 
+ Issel—Malac. del Mar Rosso, 1869, p. 117. 
} Brazier—Proc. Linn. Soe, N.S. W., (2) ix., 1894, p. 168, pl. xiv., fig. 2. 
