476 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



One specimen from the Funafuti lagoon beach. 

 It has been taken by Cuming at Marutea, Paumotus, and by 

 Garrett at Tahiti. 



DAPHNELLA LYMNEIFORMIS, Kiener. 

 Kiener, Coquilles Vivantes, Canaliferes, i., (n.d.), Pleurotome, p. 



62, pi. xxii., fig. 3. 



Two specimens from Funafuti appear to be the first recorded 

 from the Central Pacific of this widely distributed form. 



DAPHNELLA PUPOIDEA, H. Adams. 



II. Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1872, p. 14, pi. iii., fig. 27 ; Tryon, 

 loc. cit., p. 314, pi. xxxiv., fig. 92. 



Mangilia victor, Sowerby, Proc. Malac. Soc., i., 1894, p. 45, pi. 

 iv., fig. 19. 



The single specimen from Funafuti is smaller and slighter than 

 Adams' type specimen, from the New Hebrides, now in the 

 Australian Museum. Melvill and Standen report it* from Lifu, 

 Loyalties, and I have obtained it at Port Moresby, British New 

 Guinea, and at Panic, New Caledonia. Drillia pygmcea, Dunker, 

 seems to be suspiciously like this species. 



DAPHNELLA THIASOTES, Melvill & Standen. 

 Mangilia thiasotes, Melvill & Standen, Journ. Conch., viii., 1896, 



p. 284, pi. ix., fig. 21. 



A more complete account than is usually given by these authors 

 enables me to satisfactorily identify a single specimen from Funa- 

 futi with their species from Lifu. They confess, " We know of 

 no pleurotomoid shell which presents the same characteristics." 

 If specific characters were thus alluded to in a shell described as 

 new, the remark would be superfluous, and I therefore presume 

 that generic characters are intended. It is obvious that this 

 species is a close ally of such a shell as Angas described as Pur- 

 pura anomala. Prof. R. Tate first pointed out that this latter was 

 one of the Pleurotomidse, allied to M. vincenti, Crosse.f In con- 

 sonance with Tryon's classification, it is therefore here termed 

 Daphnella thiasotes. 



CONUS LITEBATUS, Linne. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 10, pi. ii., figs. 17 - 19 ; Garrett, Journ. Conch., 



i., 1878, pp. 354, 360. 

 I purchased a specimen of this from a native at Nukulailai. 



* Melvill & Standen Loc. cit., viii., p. 94. 



t Tate Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., v., 1881, p. 131. 



