498 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



CKYPTODON GLOBOSUM, ForskaL 

 Reeve, Conch. Icon., vi., 1850, pi. v., sp. 21 (as L. ovum). 



Common as dead shells on the lagoon beach. 



Ranges along the east Australian coast south to St. Vincent's 

 Gulf. Is represented in this Museum from Tonga. 



TELLINA IIUGOSA, Born. 

 Sowerby, Conch. Icon., xvii., Tellina, 1866, pi. ix., sp. 36. 



A few dead, subfossil valves were picked up around the raised 

 Heliopora reef. 



Reported by H. Cuming from Rapa, Austral Islands ; by 

 Melvill and Standen from Lifu ; and by Schmeltz from Samoa, 

 Fiji, Rarotonga, and Tahiti. In this Museum it is represented 

 from Moreton Bay, Queensland ; Pipon Islands, New Caledonia ; 

 Tonga ; and Hawaii. 



TELLINA SCOBINATA, Linue. 

 Sowerby, loc. cit., pi. xiv., sp. 64. 



Common on the lagoon beach. 



Sowerby notes this from the Society Islands ; Schmeltz from 

 Samoa, Fiji, and Rarotonga ; Melvill and Standen from Lifu. 

 This Museum contains it from the Solomons, Gilberts, and 

 Tonga. 



TKLLINA FLAMMULA, Deshayes. 

 Sowerby, loc cit., pi. lii , sp. 310. 



A few valves from the lagoon beach. 



Included in the Museum collection from Woodlark Island and 

 New Caledonia. 



TELLINA DISPAR, Conrad. 

 Sowerby, loc. cit., pi. iii., sp. 10. 



A few separate valves were noticed on the lagoon beach. 



First described from Hawaii ; noted by Schmeltz from Upolu 

 and Tahiti ; and by Melvill and Standen from Lifu. Represented 

 in this Museum from Port Curtis and Moreton Bay. Queensland ; 

 and New Caledonia. 



TKI.LIVA OBLIQUARIA, Deshayes. 

 Sowerby, loc. cit., pi. liv., sp. 321. 



Several specimens from the beach of the lagoon, some rose, 

 others lemon, others again lemon with rose stripes from the umbo. 



Deshayes, in his original description,* records this species 

 from the Pacific Ocean. Sowerby, in the reference quoted above, 



Deshayes -Pioc. Zool. Soc., 1854, p. 356. 



