go MELVILL AND STANDEN : SHELLS FROM LIFU. 
abounding in synonymy and false species, and badly need- 
ing a competent monographer. 
OrDER PROSOBRANCHIATA. 
FaMity 7ZEREBRID. 
Terebra (Subula) casta Hinds.—Near 7° Aastata Menke. 
A pretty species. Several specimens. 
T. (Subula) crenulata Linné.— Several fine specimens in’ 
various stages of growth. 
T. (Subula) dimidiata Linné.—Several. 
T. (Subula) duplicata Lamarck.—Three specimens. 
T. (Subula) maculata Linné.—Very numerous in all stages 
of growth, several specimens being large and well marked. 
T. (Subula) muscaria Linné.—Abundant and very fine. 
T. (Abretia) affinis Gray.—A beautiful, but common form. 
Numerous examples. 
T. (Abretia) cerithina Lamarck.—One full-grown specimen 
in good condition. 
T. (Hastula) circumcincta Deshayes. — A conspicuous 
shell, spirally transverse-striated. Several specimens. 
T. (Hastula) lanceata Lamarck.—A number of worn or 
fragmentary examples of this elegant species. 
T. (Euterebra) Bernardi Deshayes.—An Australian form. 
One or two specimens. 
T. (Euterebra) circinata Deshayes.— A few examples. 
Originally described from China. 
T. (Euterebra) Mariesii Smith.—One specimen only, but 
exactly agreeing with the Japanese type ; it has been re- 
ferred to the describer of the species, 
T. (Euterebra) straminea Gray.—Two specimens. 
T. (Euterebra) tricolor Sowerby. — Several imperfect but 
characteristic specimens. 
T. (Myurella) argus Hinds.—One fine example only. 
T. (Myurella) cingulifera Lamarck.—A few worn shells. 
T. (Myurella) myuros Lamarck.—Uncommon. 
J.C., viil., Oct. 1895. 
