464 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



One specimen was brought alive from forty to eighty fathoms, 

 on the western slope of Funafuti. 



COLUMBELLA OBTUSA, Sowerby. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 181, pi. lix., figs. 59, 60. 



Two specimens alive in the Funafuti lagoon. 



Tryon quotes this from Fiji, Reeve from Huaheine, and Kobelt 

 from Hawaii. It is in this Museum from the Solomons and the 

 New Hebrides. 



COLUMBELLA TRINGA, Lamarck. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 181, pi. lix., figs. 65,66. 



One specimen alive in the lagoon. 



Tryon mentions this from New Caledonia and Fiji. It is in 

 this Museum from Milne Bay, British New Guinea. 



COLUMBELLA RUBICUNDA, Quoy & Gaim. 

 Quoy & Gaim., Voy. " Astrolabe," ii., 1832, p. 588, pi. xl., figs. 



25, 26. 



Schmeltz* records this from the Ellice, and also Pyrene aurea, 

 Lamk. 



ENGINA PARVA, Pease. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 195, pi. Ixiii., fig. 55. 



One dead shell on the lagoon beach. Found by Pease in the 

 Paumotus. 



ENGINA NODICOSTATA, Pease 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 195, pi. Ixiii., figs. 56, 57. 



One living but immature shell from the lagoon of Funafuti. 

 Tryon records this species from the Paumotus and Fiji. 



ENGINA MENDICARIA, Linne. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 196, pi. Ixiii., figs. 62, 73. 



Abundant in the rock pools of the outer beach of Funafuti. 

 Schmeltz names this from Samoa and Fiji, Melvill and Standen 

 from the Loyalty Islands, Kobelt from New Ireland, and Brazier 

 from Torres Straits. Specimens from Port Moresby, British New 

 Guinea, are in this Museum. 



MITRA EPISCOPALIS, Linne. 

 Tryon, Man. Conch., iv., 1882, p. Ill, pi. xxxii., fig. 1 ; Garrett, 



Journ. Conch., iii , 1880, pp. 3, 14. 



I collected several specimens of this mollusk alive, on sandy 

 gravel flats, in the Funafuti lagoon at low water-mark. The shell 



* Schmeltz Cat. Godeffroy Museum, v., 1874, p. 125. 



