428 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



Two imperfect shells from the lagoon correspond to examples 

 of this Mauritian species. 



STROMBUS LENTIGINOSUS, Linne. 

 Tryon, Man. Conch, vii., 1885, p. 110, pi. iii., figs. 23, 24. 



One dead shell I picked up on the Funafuti beach. 



Tryon gives the localities of New Caledonia and Fiji ; in this 

 Museum it is from British New Guinea and the Solomons. 



STROMBUS FLORIDUS, Lamarck. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 119, pi. vii., figs. 73 - 76, 80, 83. 



Abundant alive in shallow water in the lagoon, associated with 

 S. luhuanus. 



Cuming saw this in the Society Islands, Tryon quotes it from 

 Fiji, and Von Martens from Samoa.* It ranges along the Aus- 

 tralian coast south to Sydney. In this Museum it is represented 

 from Teste Island, Louisiades, Erromanga, New Hebrides, and 

 Hawaii. 



STROMBUS DENTATUS, var. RUGOSUS, Sowerby. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 119, pi. vii., fig. 72. 

 Abundant alive in the Funafuti lagoon. 

 Schmeltz records this from Samoa and Tonga, f 



STROMBUS H^EMASTOMA, Sowerby. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 120, pi. vii., fig. 78. 



Recorded from the Ellice Group by Schmeltz. \ 



STROMBUS TEREBELLATUS, Sowerby. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 121, pi. viii., fig. 87. 



Alive, with the preceding, but uncommon. 



Tryon notes this from Fiji, and it has already been recorded 

 from the Ellice Group by Schmeltz. It is shown in this Museum 

 from New Guinea. 



STROMBUS GIBBERULUS, Linne. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 121, pi. viii., fig. 85. 



Only seen in a dead state on the beach of the Funafuti 

 lagoon. 



Cuming found this at the Society Islands. Tryon gives it from 

 New Guinea, Fiji, and the Paumotus ; and Melvill and Standen 

 from Lifu. It is in this Museum from Torres Straits, Louisiades, 

 and New Hebrides. 



* Martens Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool., xxi., 1889, p. 189. 

 t Schmeltz Mus. Godeffroy, Cat. v., 1874, p. 112. 

 I Schmeltz Loc. cit., p. 142. 



