THE MOLLUSCA HEDLEY. 



415 



SCALA OVALIS, Sowerby. 

 Tryon, op. cit., p. 69, pi. xiv., fig. 40. 



With doubt I refer here a species obtained on the lagoon shore. 



SCALIOLA LAPILLIFEBA, 8p. UOV. 

 (Fig. 8). 



Shell ovate conical, broad for the genus, 

 white, thin and translucent. Whorls seven, 

 rounded, the earlier closely coiled, the later 

 looser, surface obscurely marked by growth 

 striae. Apical whorls smooth and bare ; the 

 rest beset with adherent sand grains more 

 closely disposed about and below the peri- 

 phery. Aperture round, free from the preced- 

 ing whorl, with expanded and reflected lip. 

 Length 2, breadth 1 mm. 



Three examples from the sandy beach of 

 the lagoon. 



This is smaller and proportionately broader 

 than other Scaliola and especially differs by 

 the almost solute whorls. It is less coated 

 with adherent matter than S. caledonica. 



Fig. 8. 



IANTHINA, sp. 



Specimens of an lanthina too young to determine specifically 

 occurred on the outer beach. 



NATICA VIOLACEA, Sowerby. 

 Tryon, Man. Conch, viii., 1886, p. 18, pi. iii., fig. 41. 



One dead and broken example from the beach of the lagoon. 



Tryon quotes this from Fiji ; Melvill and Standen from Lifu. In 

 this Museum it is represented from the Bampton Reef, Coral Sea 

 and New Caledonia. 



NATICA MAROCHIENSIS, Gmelin. 

 Tryon, op. cit., p. 22, pi. v., figs. 74-96 ; pi. vii., fig. 36; pi. viii., 



fig. 49. 



Several dead shells occurred on the lagoon beach. 

 Melvill and Standen quote this from Lifu. In this Museum its 

 Australian range is shown to be from Torres Straits to Sydney, 

 and it is also represented from the New Hebrides, New Caledonia 

 and Hawaii. 



NATICA MANILLA, Linne. 

 Tryon, op. cit., p. 49, pi. xv., fig. 43; pi. xvi., figs. 46, 48; pi xvii., 



figs. 65, 69. 



One specimen was obtained attached to a native ornament as 

 described ante p. 247. 



