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ranges all through Polynesia. They vary much in size and 

 color. 

 S3. C. (Aricia) Mauritiana, L. This fine but common 

 cowry is more or less abundant at all the South Sea groups, 

 and more plentifiil at the Marquesas than elsewhere. At 

 the Society Islands they are very rarely found. During two 

 years' collecting in the Viti Group we obtained it in' but one 

 locality, Lanthala Island, where we found a single colony of 

 about a dozen individuals of different ages under a huge block 

 of coral on the shore or fringing reef We found it abun- 

 dant and very large at the Benin Islands, a small group 

 about midway between Guam and Japan. 



34. C. f Aricia) moneta, L. Found in more or less profusion 

 in all parts of Polynesia, and delights in sandy-mud flats. 

 They vary much in size, shape, development of nodules, and 

 in color vary from white to the most intense saffron-yellow. 

 The sides, though usually more or less yellov^r, are sometimes 

 pure white. The young are creamy-white, with three narrow, 

 pale, fulvous, transverse bands. 



Animal diluted white or creamy-white, the mantle ele- 

 gantly veined with deep black, and ornamented with numerous 

 simple and dendritic processes which are ringed with opaque- 

 white and tipped with lilac. The tentacles are veined with 

 black. Siphon with a terminal fringe, and the muzzle is 

 light buff-yellow. 



35. C. (Luponia) mappa, L. Examples of this comparatively 

 rare species were collected at all the groups, except 

 the Marquesas and Sandwich Islands. During an unusually 

 low tide at the Viti Islands, we obtained two living examples 

 on live coral. They inhabit deep water outside the reefs. 



Paumotu specimens have a large purple-brown spot on 

 the left side of the aperture. 



