106 MELVILL AND STANDEN: SHELLS FROM LIFU. 
coloration is, as has been said, white, with squarrose brown 
variegated markings. 
E. sinensis Melvill.—Proc. Malac. Soc., vol. i., p. 227, 1895. 
(Pl. IIL, fig. 27). 
This species, described since the original reading of this 
paper, from two specimens in the National Collection marked 
‘China Seas,’ has, curiously enough, turned up in fair quantity, 
viz, ten or twelve specimens, in the.Loyalty Islands also. 
We have thought it worth while to append a figure taken from 
Lifu specimen. 
E. variabilis Pease.—A few, but worn, specimens. 
E. zatricium Melvill.—Proc. Malac. Soc., vol. i., p. 51, 1894. 
(Pie i figs): 
Described from Mr. Hadfield’s first consignment of speci- 
mens, and found not to be infrequent by the numerous examples, 
since received. It is allied to &. donasta von Mart. and £. fust- 
formis Pease, but distinct from both. We give a representation 
of this species. 
E. zonata Reeve.—In remarkable abundance, and more 
plentiful than 2. Zneata, which, while it occurred in its 
hundreds, was eclipsed by the thousands of &. zonata. 
Mostly in capital condition, and showing a good deal of 
variation, some specimens, for example, being quite black 
at the base, with hardly any white markings at all. 
E. (Pusiostoma) mendicaria Linné. — Abundant and 
variable. 
It will be seen by the above array of species of this 
genus that the Loyalty Islands may almost be considered their 
metropolis, and we hope, in future, for other interesting and 
perhaps yet unknown species from this locality. It is urgently 
to be wished that some specimens might be dredged alive so as 
to afford opportunity for examination of the radula. 
Phos nodicostatus E. Ad.—Two specimens of this elegant 
form. 
J.C., vili., Oct. 1895. 
