494 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



PECTEN PALLIUM, Linne. 

 Reeve, loc. cit., pi. xvii., fig. 63. 



One valve from the lagoon beach. 



This species appears to be widespread through the tropical 

 Pacific. Cuniing found it at Marutea, Paumotus. It is repre- 

 sented in this Museum from San Christoval, Solomons; Erromanga, 

 New Hebrides; New Caledonia ; Tonga; and the Gilberts. 



P.novce-guinece, T. Woods, a Pleistocene fossil from Hall Sound, 

 British New Guinea, is reduced to a synonym of P. pallium by Prof. 

 R. Tate. 



PECTEN DISTANS, Reeve. 

 Kobelt, Conch. Cab., Pecten, 1885, p. 228, pi. xli., fig. 2. 



One valve from the lagoon beach. 



New Caledonian specimens occur in the Museum series. 



PECTEN MADREPORARUM, Sowerby 

 Sowerby, Thesaurus Conch., i., 1847, p. 68, pi. xiv., fig. 68. 



One specimen from the lagoon beach. 



Also represented in the Museum from Hood Lagoon and 

 Tupuselei, British New Guinea ; Cape York, Queensland ; and 

 New Caledonia. This species appears to be universally but 

 erroneously ascribed to Petit. It is a perverse fate which credits 

 an author, who was the first to energetically protest against manu- 

 script names,f with indulging in the practice himself. Sowerby 's 

 locality, the Red Sea, as well as his authority, requires confirma- 

 tion. 



HINNITES, sp. 



Attached to sheets of dead coral, and associated with the 

 Brachiopod Thecidea maxilla, were several adherent valves of a 

 species of Hinnites, too imperfect for specific determination. 



PTERIA PEASKI, Dunker. 

 Dunker, Conch. Cab., Avicula, 1872, p. 24, pi. viii., fig. 1. 



Attached (as mentioned ante p. 308) in great numbers to the 

 branches of Plexaura antipathes. 



The species was described by Pease \ under the thrice pre-occupied 

 name of Avicula radiata,irom the Gilberts. Schmeltz, who considers 

 A. cypsellus, Dunker, a synonym, reports it from Samoa. 



PTERIA CUMINUII, Reeie. 

 Reeve, Conch. Icon, x., 1857, Avicula, pi. iv., sp. 6. 



* Tate Proc. Liun. Soc. N.S.W. (t), ix., 1894, p. 214. 



t Petit Bivue Zool., ii., 1839, p. 316, and hi., 1840, p. 154. 



| Pease Proc. Zool. Soc., 1862, p. 244. 



Schmeltz Mus. Godeffroy Cat., v., 1874, p. 176. 



