84 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 
NOTES ON A COLLECTION Ob SHELES 
FROM LIFU AND UVEA, LOYALTY ISLANDS, 
FORMED BY 
THE REV. JAMES AND MRS. HADFIELD, 
WITH LIST OF SPECIES: 
By JAMES COSMO MELVILL, M.A., F.L.S., aAnbD 
ROBERT STANDEN. 
(Read before the Conchological Society, June 9th, 1894). 

THE Loyalty Islands, of which the three principal are Lifu, 
Maré, and Uvea, form part of the New Caledonian Archipelago, 
and are situate east of the main isle, with its capital Noumea, 
being placed long. 168° E. lat. 22° S. They are not, therefore, 
very far within the tropic of Capricorn. 
Belonging to France, it is not surprising that several 
eminent naturalists of that nation have made an especial study 
of the fauna of this group. Accordingly we find, mainly in 
the pages of the ‘Journal de Conchylologie,’ numerous papers 
on both the Terrestrial and Marine Mollusca, mostly from the 
pens of MM. Crosse, P. Fischer, Souverbie, Gassies, and three 
resident conchologists of note—Lambert, Marie, and Mon- 
trouzier. Mr. John Brazier* has likewise described a few new 
forms from this region, and we must not omit the name of 
Mr. Edgar L. Layard, C.M.G., for many years British Consul 
in New Caledonia, who here, as elsewhere, made large 
collections. 
Lhe period of most active research in this quarter, so far 
as the mollusca are concerned, would appear to have been the 
decade 1865-75;~but several novelties have been described 
since that later date. 
We cannot find, however, that any catalogue of the whole 
Marine Molluscan Fauna of the Loyalty Island group has been 


Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., iy. (1879), 1880, pp. 388—392. 
J.C., viti.. July 1805. 
