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The following species (unknowii to me) are recorded from 

 the Viti Islands : — 



Conns crassus, Sow. 

 ,. Sotverbyi, Rve. 

 ,, dilediis, Gld. 

 ,, lemniscatus, R\e. 

 „ radiatus, Gmel. 



Since writing the preceding notes I find I have omitted to 

 enter in the list Conus cinaciaius, Rve., a common species which 

 only occurred to my notice at the Viti Islands, where it was found 

 on reefs. 



The animal has the foot marbled with light and dark chest- 

 nut brown, its upper anterior end white, margined with yellow 

 and marked with a black spot ; head and tentacles pale yellow ; 

 siphon white, margined with lemon yellow and ornamented with 

 two transverse black zones. 

 July, 1877. 



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COLONISING LAND SHELLS. 

 By J. S. GIBBONS, M.B. 

 Some of our British species appear to partake of the colon- 

 ising propensities of the English race. H. aspersa, MiilL, is 

 recorded from Brazil, S. Australia, (Sec, and I have found it at St. 

 Helena and the Cape of Good Hope. Z. cellarius, Miill, is a still 

 greater wanderer, and it also occurs at St. Helena, Madeira, and 

 the Cape. These two species are not only widely diffused, but 

 they are sometimes astonishingly prolific. I never saw H. aspersa 

 so abundant as near Cape Town, while Z. cellarius occurs literally 

 in hundreds in the space of a few sc^uare feet near a water-fall, 

 St. Helena. 

 Jan., 1878. 



