452 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



Garrett noticed this in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Gilberts, Carolines, 

 Society and Paumotus. Brazier* has remarked it from Torres 

 Straits southwards to Botany Bay, from Fiji, New Britain, New 

 Ireland, New Caledonia and the Solomons. It is further repre- 

 sented in this Museum from Woodlark Island (British New 

 Guinea), Erromanga and Aneiteum (New Hebrides), and Niue. 



CYPE^EA RETICULATA, Martyn. 



Tryon, loc. cit., p. 174, pi. viii., figs. 20-22 ; Garrett, loc. cit., 



pp. 107, 117. 

 A small variety occurs alive in the Funafuti lagoon. 



Garrett saw this in the Gilberts, Cooks, Society, Paumotus, 

 Marquesas and Hawaii. 



GYPR^EA MONETA, Linne. 



Tryon, loc. cit., p. 177, pi. x., fig. 46; pi. xi., figs. 51 - 54; pi. xxiii., 

 figs. 60-69; Garrett, loc. cit., pp. 106, 115. 



Abundant alive under stones round the margin of the Funafuti 

 lagoon. 



Garrett records it from Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Gilberts, Carolines, 

 Cook's, Society, Paumotus, Marquesas, and Hawaii. This species 

 ranges along the Australian coast from Torres Straits south to 

 Sydney.f I have seen it at Milne Bay and Port Moresby, British 

 New Guinea. In this Museum are examples from Niue, Teste Island, 

 Louisiades, the Solomons, Erromanga, New Hebrides, New Cale- 

 donia, and Lord Howe Island. "At Eramanga," writes Brenchley, J 

 "a shell called ' Nunpurij the Cyprcea moneta, passes as money, 

 as also in New Caledonia." 



CTPR^EA MONETA, var. ANNULUS, Linne. 



Occurred as usual in company with the species in chief, with 

 which, like C. obvelata, and contrary to the opinion of monographers, 

 it intergrades by easy stages. 



TIGRIS, Linne. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 180, pi. xi., figs. 49, 50; pi. xv., fig. 8; Garrett, 



loc. cit., pp. 107, 120. 



I picked up one broken shell on the beach of Funafuti, and 

 purchased a specimen from a native on Nukulailai. 



Seen by Garrett from Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Gilberts, Carolines, 

 Cook's, Society, Paumotus, Marquesas, and Hawaii. This occurs 



* Brazier Journ. Conch, ii., 1879, p. 194. 



t Henn Proc. Linn. Soe, N.S.W. (2), x., 1895, p. 520. 



j Brenchley The Cruise of the " Curasoa," 1873, p. 299. 



