THE MOLLUSCA HEDLEY. 481 



Hinds remarks this from the Society and Marquesas, and 

 Melvill and Standen from Lifu ; this Museum contains it from 

 Pipon Island and New Caledonia. 



TEREBRA DIMIDIATA, Linne. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 9, pi. i., figs. 4, 13. 



Fragments only of this were collected at Funafuti by myself, 

 but Mr. G. Sweet showed me a whole one. 



Hinds reports this from Tahiti ; Melvill and Standen from 

 Lifu. It is in this Museum from British New Guinea, and 

 Erromanga and Aneiteum, New Hebrides. 



TEREBRA MACULATA, Linne. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 9, pi. i., figs 9, 10. 



This shell is a rarity on Funafuti, and I was unable to personally 

 obtain a specimen, though I identified the species from one pur- 

 chased from the natives by another member of our party. A 

 specimen was also obtained by Mr. G. Sweet. It was formerly of 

 great value to the inhabitants of this and other Pacific Islands, 

 who employed it as a cutting or boring edge for certain tools.* 

 Dr. Hinds, who found a dwarf form at Hao Atoll, Paumotus, 

 remarks : "In the Pacific, the animal is eaten as food, and the 

 shell, ground at an angle, was much in use as a chisel in the con- 

 struction of the canoes."t 



The "Chevert" Expedition obtained this in Torres Straits. Mel vill 

 and Standen note it from Lifu. I collected it at Port Moresby, 

 British New Guinea, where the natives knew it as " bodoa." 



TEREBRA SUBULATA, Linne. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 10, pi. i., fig. 3; pi. iii., fig. 35. 



One specimen was found by Mr. G. Sweet. 



Hinds found it at Hao and Tahiti. It is represented from the 

 Solomons, New Caledonia, and Hawaii in this Museum. 



TEREBRA TIGRINA, Gmelin. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 10, pi. i., fig. 11. 



Mr. G. Sweet obtained two examples. Reported by Tryon from 

 Hawaii, and represented in this Museum from the New Hebrides. 



TEREBRA AFFINIS, Gray. 

 Tryon, loc. cit., p. 14 pi. ii., figs. 18, 22. 



Two worn shells were taken on the Funafuti beach. 



* See ante pp. 249, 259. 



f R. B. Hinds Thes. Conch., i., 1847, p. 150. 



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