EN TRODUE TON: 
During the past few years large collections of the shells 
of Lifu and Uvea have been made by the Rev. James and 
Mrs. Hadfield, and have been consigned to several Manchester 
conchologists. By the kindness of Messrs. R. D. Darbishire, 
R. Cairns, and W. Moss, a very complete series of these shells 
has been presented to the Manchester Museum, which possesses 
in addition the types of the majority of the new species here 
described, though a few remain in Mr. Melvill’s cabinet. They 
have been arranged for exhibition, and a list of them, with notes 
and descriptions of new species, was drawn up by Mr. J. Cosmo 
Melvill (a member of the Committee of the Manchester 
Museum) and Mr. R. Standen (of the Museum staff). As the 
collection is one of the largest and most important that has 
been received in this country from the Loyalty Islands, it has 
been thought desirable to afford the naturalists of Manchester 
and elsewhere an opportunity of obtaining separate copies of 
this catalogue, and it has therefore been reprinted from ‘The 
Journal of Conchology’ and issued as one of the Museum 
Handbooks. 
WILLIAM E. HOovYLe, 
Keeper of the Museum. 
