562 



FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 



Fig. 79. 



RlNGICULA INCISA, sp, nOV. 



(Fig. 79.) 



Shell ovate, glossy. Whorls five. Colour 

 white. Sculpture girt around the last whorl 

 are eight nearly equidistant sharp furrows, 

 sloping above and cut square below so as to 

 carve the surface into descending steps. On 

 the upper whorls there are three furrows. A 

 distinct varix marks the penultimate whorl. 

 Aperture ear-shaped, effuse and truncate 

 anteriorly. Outer lip broadly reflected, rather 

 straight, without tubercles. Inner lip with 

 broad and strong plications below and a small 

 one above. Length 2 '2; breadth 1-2 mm. 



One specimen dredged in 36 fathoms N. 30 

 W. of Pava Islet. 



PHYLLIDIA VARICOSA, Lamarck. 



Bergh, Reis. Archip. Philippinen,ii., 1876, p. 380, pi. lxxxvi.,fig. 11. 

 Three specimens were collected by Mr. A. E. Finckh in the 

 Funafuti lagoon. 



CRYPTOPTHALMUS SMARAGDINUS, Leuckart. 

 Pilsbry, Man. Conch., xvi., 1895, p. 37, pi. vi., figs. 29 - 36. 



Two specimens were taken by myself alive in shallow water in 

 the lagoon. Mention of them was inadvertantly omitted from 

 preceding pages. With them were taken an undetermined Doris, 

 and an Eolis. 



LIMACINA INFLATA, D'Orbigny. 



H. and A. Adams, Genera Recent Mollusca, iii., 1858, pi. cxxxvii., 



figs. 2, 2a, 26; Pelseneer, Chall. Rep., Zool., xxiii., 1888, p. 17. 



Dead shells were dredged in abundance, off Tutaga Islet, in 45 



- 52, 50 - 60, and 200 fathoms ; in 36 fathoms north and in 36 



fathoms N. 30 W. of Pava ; and in 150 fathoms off Beacon Islet 



(Funamanu). 



LIMACINA BULIMOIDES, D'Orbigny. 

 Rang and Souleyet, Hist. Nat. Pteropodes, 1852, p. 65, pi. xv., 



figs. 1-7; Pelseneer, loc. cit., p. 30. 



Dead shells dredged plentifully off Tutaga Islet in 36, 45 - 52 

 and 200 fathoms, and N. 30 W. of Pava Islet in 36 fathoms. 



CLIO VIRGULA, Rang. 



Rang and Souleyet, loc. cit., p. 57, pi. vi., tig. 2, pi. xiii., figs. 20 

 - 24; Pelseneer, loc. cit., p. 48. 



