560 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



MUREX RAMOSUS, Linne. 

 Tryon, Man. Conch., ii., 1880, p. 95, pi. i., figs. 1, 2. 



A specimen was obtained by Mr. A. E. Finckh on one of the 

 leeward islets of Funafuti. 



CYPR^EA BECKI, Gaskoin. 

 Tryon, Man. Conch., vii., 1885, p. 91, pi. xvii., figs. 86, 87. 



One specimen collected by Mr. W. Poole on the lagoon beach 

 of Funafuti. 



TORRICULA EXASPERATA, Gmelin. 

 Tryon, Man. Conch., iv., 1882, p. 180, pi. liii., figs. 541-544, 



pi. liv., figs. 545-546. 

 One dead shell dredged in 36 fathoms N. 30 W. of Pava Islet. 



MARGINELLA ISSELI, Nevill, var. ELLICENSIS, var. nov. 

 (Fig. 78.) 



Shell small, ovate, white, smooth, with a 

 buried spire. Aperture narrow, crescentic. 

 Outer lip arching from and above the vertex, 

 thickened without and finely crenulate within, 

 channeled anteriorly. Inner lip with a heavy 

 layer of callus edged abruptly. Columella 

 with three oblique entering folds, the posterior 

 one small. Length 1*4; breadth '64 mm. 



Dredged at 36 fathoms north of Pava Islet' 

 at 36 fathoms N. 30 W. of Pava Islet, and at 

 150 fathoms off Beacon Islet (Funamanu) 



After much perplexity I have concluded not to separate this 

 specifically from M. isseli, Nevill,* which agrees in size and shape 

 but apparently differs by an additional fold on the columella. 

 The example of that which Issel examined f had not the crenulated 

 lip of the type. Savigny's work, containing the original descrip- 

 tion, is unfortunately inaccessible to me. No distinction is 

 apparent to me between this species and M. nympha, Brazier,! 

 from Sydney Harbour, 



Examples from Cape Sidmouth, Queensland, of what appears 

 to be another variety of M. isseli are before me. They agree in 

 shape but differ by being 2 mm. in length, and by having five 

 plications on the columella. 



* Tryon Man. Conch., v., 1883, p. 40, pi. xi., fig. 39. 



f Issel Malae. del Mar Eosso, 18G9, p. 117. 



j Brazier Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., (2) ix., 1894, p. 168, pi. xiv., fig. 2. 



