THE MOLLUSCA HBDLEY. 405 



sculpture and, except for a white apex, the colour, is like that of 

 G. danieli, Crosso, from which it differs by a crenulate umbilical 

 margin. The largest is 7 mm in diameter and has an umbilicus 

 1 mm. broad. 



G. concinna is known only from Upolu, Samoa. 



GIBBULA PHASIANELLA, Deshayes. 

 Pilsbry, op. cit., p. 235, pi. xxxi., tigs. 31, 32, 33. 



Dead shells frequently occurred on the lagoon beach of Funafuti. 



Specimens from the Manchester Museum enable me to state that 

 this is the species which Melvill and Standen record* from Lifu 

 as "Margarita striatula, Phil.," a name which I have been unable 

 to trace in literature. It has already been recorded from Lifu, 

 and also from He Art by Fischer. f I found it alive in abund- 

 ance under stones between tide marks, at Noumea, New Caledonia. 

 It is represented in this Museum from Lord Howe Island. 



The species hardly seems suitably placed in this genus. 



MONILEA LIFUANA, Fischer, 

 Pilsbry, op. cit., p. 252, pi. xli., tigs. 6, 7; pi. lix., tigs. G4, 65. 



Commonly seen in a dead state on the sandy beach of the 

 Funafuti lagoon. 



As the name implies this species was first found at the Loyalty 

 Islands. Smith J has recorded it from Torres Straits. It is also 

 in this Museum from Aneiteum, New Hebrides. 



MONILEA TRAGEMA, Melvill & Standen. 

 Melvill & Standen, Journ. Conch., viii., 1896, p. 313, pi. xi., 



fig. 78. 



A shell fairly plentiful in a dead state on the lagoon beach of 

 Funafuti is referred here. The fifty examples before me show 

 much variation. The colour ranges from pale pink articulated 

 with white, through white irregularly splashed or microscopically 

 dotted with pink, to entire chalky white. The elevation and 

 angulation of the whorls vary, and the size of the largest (length 

 4 mm.) is almost double that of the type from Lifu. 



EUCHELUS INSTRICTUS, Gould. 



Pilsbry, op. cit., p. 441, pi. Ixvii., figs. 62, 63. 



A single dead specimen from the beach of the Funafuti 

 lagoon. 



* Melvill & Standen Journ. Conch, viii., 1896, p. 126. 



t Fischer, op. cit., p. 364. 



: Smith-Zool. Coll. "Alert," 1884, p. 73. 



