THE 



JOURNAL 



OF 



CONCHOLOGY. 



CATALOGUE OF THE POLYNESIAN MITRID^, WLFH 

 REMARKS ON THEIR GEOGRAPHICAL RANGE, STA- 

 TION, AND DESCRIPTIONS OF SUPPOSED NEW 



SPECIES. 



By ANDREW GARRETT. 



The family MitridcB, which includes some of the most 

 beautiful shells as regards elegance of form, sculpture and color, 

 is represented in Polynesia by nearly 200 species, many of which 

 are very rare. 



They inhabit various stations ; many being strictly reef 

 shells, where they lurk in holes and crevices under sea-weed, but 

 are most generally concealed under stones and blocks of dead 

 coral. Others burrow in sand or sandy-mud at various depths; 

 some delight in stony ground inside the reefs, where they remain 

 concealed under clumps of coral during the day, and like the 

 sand species are nocturnal in their habits. All the species 

 belonging to the section or subgenus Zierlina are found beneath 



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