ON MAKINE SHELLS FIIOM THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. 535 



cial functional (?) requirements of the organism. It is these re- 

 quirements that need further elucidation. 



In conclusion, I wish to say this paper is intended to be only 

 'preliminary to a more extended series of observations on the points 

 it discusses ; and though it may seem a meagre production, I 

 fancied that even such brief notes might claim notice by this 

 Society. 



I shall be very grateful to any one who will help me to obtaiu 

 spirit specimens of the rarer birds, and especially of the genus 

 Picus. 



A List of Marine Shells, chiefly from the Solomon Islands, with 

 Descriptions of several new Species. By Edgae A. Smith, 

 F.Z.S., Zoological Department, British Museum. Communi- 

 cated by Dr. J. Mubie, F.L.S. 



[Eead April 6, 1876.] 



(Plate XXX.) 



The shells enumerated iu the following paper have been pre- 

 sented to the British Museum by Mr. John Brazier, of Sydney. 

 A list of them was thought worthy of publication, as precise 

 localities, in most instances, are attached to them, the majority 

 having been collected by Mr. Brazier himself. At the same time, 

 the habitats originally assigned to the various species by the 

 authors are quoted, since so many which are given to species in 

 the Cumingian collection are erroneous. 



I. CoNUS MAGUS, I/imt. Kiener, Coq. Fw.pl. 67. f. 1-1 c; Reeve, 

 Conch. Ic. f. 190 a-e; Sowerby, Thesaurus Conch, f. 508-512 & f. 

 513, 514, & 525 (as C. circce) ; fVeinkauff in Kiister's Conch.-Cab.'pl. 

 6. f. 1 & 3, pi. 15. f. 3, 4, pi. 19. f. 5, 6, pi. 57. f. 8-1 1.— Var. = C. 

 indicus, Chemnitz, Conch.-Cab.x. f. 1295. — C. clandestinus, Chemnitz, 

 I. c. f. 1296.— C. circs, Chemnitz, I. c. xi. f. 1778-9.— C. fenellus, 

 Chemnitz, I. c. xi. f. 1782-3; Kiister, pi. 26. f. 12, 13.— C. raphanus, 

 Hwass, Sowerby, Thesaurus, f. 494 ; Kiister, pi. 2. f. 3.— C. carinatus, 

 Swainson, Reeve, Conch. Ic. f. 175 ; Kiener, pi. 27. f. 2-2a ; Sowerby, f, 

 495._C, ustulatus, Reeve, f. 239 ; Sowerby, f. 516 A- 647 ; Kiister, 

 pi. 52. f. 3, 4.— C. epistomiura. Reeve, f. 227 a,b: Kiener, pi. 55. 

 f. 6; Sowerfej/, f. 515,— C. epistomioides, IVeinl-auff, Kiister's Con.- 

 Cab. pi. 57. f. 6-7.— C. striolatus, Kiener, pi. 105. f. 1 ; Reeve, Suppl. 

 pi. 6. f. 262 J Sowerby, f. 327, 328 (as ustulatus).— C. borueensis, 



