402 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



shells drifted to the Atoll, but the natives positively asserted that 

 they never occurred there alive. No shells of Spirula were seen on 

 the beaches. 



Dr. Georg Pfeffer has described* Loligo brevipinnis from the 

 Ellice Group. 



No members of the BRACHIOPODA or POLYPLACOPHERA were 

 seen in the Ellice Islands. 



SCAPHOPODA. 



DENTALIUM LESSONI, Deshayes. 

 Pilsbry, Man. Conch, xvii., 1898, p. 8, pi. vi., figs. 36 - 90. 



Two imperfect shells found on the sandy beach of the lagoon 

 correspond more nearly to this than to any other described form. 



GASTEROPODA. 



HALIOTIS STOMATIAEFORMIS, Reeve. 



Pilsbry, Man. Conch, xii., 1890, p. 89, pi. iii., fig. 4; pi. xlix., 



figs. 30 - 35. 



I found a single dead shell on the windward side of Nukulailai. 

 Mr. Sweet has sent me specimens from Funafuti. 



Pilsbry records this from New Caledonia and Fiji. 



EMARGINULA CLATHRATA, Pease. 



Pilsbry, op. cit., p. 266, pi. Ixiii., fig. 12; Pease, Am. Journ. 



Conch, iv., 1868, p. 99, pi. ii., fig. 24. 



Orrce found alive under a stone in the lagoon. Hitherto only 

 known from Hawaii. 



EMARGINULA MARIEI, Orosse. 

 Pilsbry, op. cit., p. 271, pi. xxii., figs. 34, 35, 36. 



A few bleached shells were gathered on the lagoon beach. 

 Hitherto only known from New Caledonia. 



ACMAEA SACCHARINA, Linne. 



Pilsbry, Man. Conch, xiii., 1891, p. 49, pi. xxxvi., figs. 60, 61, 62, 



78; pi. xviii., figs. 31, 32; pi. xxiv., figs. 12, 13. 

 A few small and dead shells inclining towards the var. perplexa, 

 Pilsbry, were found on the outer beach. Schmeltz mentions it 

 from Queensland, Samoa, and Fiji. 



* Pfeffer, Die Cephalopoden des Hamburger Naturhistorischen Museums. 

 Abb. Geb. der Naturw. viii., 1884, p. 5, pi. i., fig. 4j pi. ii., fig. 4a. 



