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MOLLUSCA. 



BY 



EDGAR A. SMITH. 



The following list may be regarded as an appendix to E. von 

 Martens's work on the Mollusca of the Mauritius and the Seychelles, 

 forming part of Mobius's ' Beitrage zur Meeresfauna der Insel 

 Mauritius und der Scychellen.' 



Of the 121 species here recorded, between forty and fifty do 

 not occur in the above work ; and the majority of them, as might 

 be expected, are well-known forms. 



I. GASTROPODA. 



1. Conus arenatus, Hwass. 



He des Roches, Amirantes ; and Cerf Island, Mascarenes, 10 fms., 

 sand. 



2. Conus hebrseus, Linn. 



Darros Island, Amirantes, on the shore. 



3. Conus turriculatus. 



Soicerby, Thesaurus,L 043-4; Weinkauf, Conch.-Cab. pi. G9. figs. 10, 1 1 . 

 Conus acutangidus, Kiener (non Chemnitz), C'oq. Viv. pi. 72. fig. 1 ; 



Soicerby, I. c. fig. 350. 

 Juv. = Conus gemmulatus, Soicerby, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, pi. 22. 



fig. 8. 



Providence Reef, Mascarenes, in 24 fms. ; sand and coral bottom. 



A single specimen from this locality is of the same pale colour, 

 faintly tinged with yellow, as the type in the British Museum, 

 purchased from the " Taylor Collection." The original example of 

 G. gemmulatus is also in the national collection, and proves on com- 

 parison to be merely the young state of the same species. 



Kiener and Sowerby are wrong apparently in their identification 



