482 



FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



Tryon quotes this from Fiji, and Melvill and Standen from Lifu. 

 Schmeltz mentions it from Tahiti and Upolu, Samoa.* Specimens 

 from the New Hebrides are in the possession of this Museum. 



SOLIDULA SULCATA, Gmelin. 

 Pilsbry, Man. Conch., xv., 1893, p. 143, pi. xxa, figs. 39, 46, 47, 48. 



Several specimens from the lagoon beach. 



This abundant, variable and widespread species has been 

 reported from Queensland and New Caledonia by Brazier, and 

 from Tahiti by Pilsbry. It is represented in the Museum Collection 

 from Guam in the Ladrones and from Aneiteum in the New 

 Hebrides. 



TORNATINA VOLUTA, Quoy & Gaimard. 

 Pilsbry, Man. Conch., xv., 1893, p. 195, pi. xxii., figs. 29, 30, 31. 



Abundant on the lagoon beach. 



Taken originally at Guam in the Ladrones by the " Astrolabe," 

 it was afterwards found in Torres Straits by the " Chevert " and 

 in Fiji by the "Challenger." Melvill and Standen note it from 

 the Loyalty Islands, and I have myself collected it at Noumea, 

 New Caledonia. 



TORVATINA HADPIELDI, Melvill & Standen. 

 Melvill & Standen, Journ. Conch., viii., 1896, p. 314; pi. xi., 



fig. 80. 



Some broken specimens from the lagoon beach appear to belong 

 to this species, which Melvill and Standen describe from Lifu, 

 and which I have also taken at Panie, New Caledonia. 



RETUSA WAUGHIANA, sp. nov. 



(Fig. 44). 



Shell subcylindrical, swollen below, sharply 

 truncated above, produced and rounded an- 

 teriorly. Colour porcelain white, glossy. 

 Sculpture longitudinal, irregularly spaced 

 ribs traverse the whole shell, anteriorly they 

 are weak threads, posteriorly they wax stouter 

 and form tubercles as they obliquely mount 

 the vertex. Between these the shell is closely 

 girt by about forty spiral grooves and their 

 complementary ridges. Whorls four, the 

 earlier ascending, the last descending. Suture 

 deeply channelled. Apex mamillate, rising 

 above the crown. Aperture very oblique, 

 racquet shaped. Outer lip springing from the 

 wall considerably below the vertex, rounded 

 posteriorly, parallel with the body whorl as far 



Fig. 44. 



Sohmeltz Mus. Godeffroy Cat. v., 1874, p. 134. 



