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MELVILL AND STANDEN: SHELLS FROM LIFU. 
have thought it worth while re-figuring as the former repre- 
sentations were hardly up to the mark. 
scurra Chemnitz.—Several, rather worn. One good speci- 
men in Archdeacon Anson’s collection, and another, very 
fine, in that of Mr. Cairns. 
tabescens Solander.— Several specimens, showing con- 
siderable variation ; some are very dwarfed in form, and 
two are of a pale straw colour without the usual dorsal 
marking. 
talpa Linné— Rather common; several specimens un- 
usually brilliant in colour and large-sized. 
testudinaria Linné.—Several very fresh and beautiful 
specimens. 
ursellus Gmelin.—Common and very fine. 
(Aricia) arabica Linné.—Plentiful in all stages. 
(Aricia) annulus Linné. — Common; some unusually 
bright in colour. 
(Aricia) caput-serpentis Lamarck.—Common ; several 
very large specimens. 
(Aricia) moneta Linné. 
and form. 
(Aricia) sulcidentata Gray.— One young but fine live 
specimen with teeth not fully developed in Mr. Cairns’ 
collection. 
(Luponia) asellus Linné.—Plentiful. 
(Luponia) aurora Solander=C. aurantium Mart. — 
Mr. Hadfield, in a letter to one of the authors, records 
coming across a fine specimen of this shell in a native hut, 
where it was held in much veneration by the occupant, who 
considered it a kind of fetish. 
Abundant and variable in size 
(Luponia) cernica Sowerby.—Several. 
(Luponia) clandestina Linné.—Type absent, but the 
pretty little var. A7¢uffel7 Jousseaume (PI. IIL, figs. 28, 29) 
is abundant. 
J.C., viii., Oct. 1895. 
