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MOLLUSCA. 



BT 



EDGAR A. SMITH. 



The following list may be regarded as an appendix to E. von 

 Martens's work on the MoUusca of the Mauritius and the Seychelles, 

 forming part of Mobius's ' Beitrage zur Meeresfauna der Insel 

 Mauritius und der Seychellen.' 



Of the IJil species here recorded, between forty and fifty do 

 not occur in the above work ; and the majority of them, as might 

 be expected, are well-known forms. 



I. GASTROPODA. 



1. Conus arenatus, Hwass. 



He des Roches, Amirantes ; and Cerf Island, Mascarenes, 10 fms., 

 sand. 



2. Conus hebrseus, Linn. 

 Darros Island, Amirantes, on the shore. 



3. Conus turriculatus. 



Sowerbyi Thesaurus,f.Q4:S-4:; Weinkauff,Conch.-Cab.-p\.69.6ga.W, 11. 

 Conus acutangulus, Kiener (non Chemnitz), Coq. Vm. pi. 72. fig. 1 ; 



Sowerhy, I. c. fig. 356. 

 Juv. ^ Conus gemmulatus, Sowerhy, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, pi. 22. 



fig. 8. 



Providence Reef, Mascarenes, in 24 fms. ; sand and coral bottom. 



A single specimen from this locality is of the same pale colour, 

 faintly tinged with yellow, as the type in the British Museum, 

 purchased from the " Taylor Collection." The original example of 

 G. gemmulatus is also in the national collection, and proves on com- 

 parison to be merely the young state of the same species. 



Kiener and Sowerby are wrong apparently in their identification 



