OSTRACODA COLLECTED IN THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS. 507 



pools inside reef; Levuka, between tide-marks ; Sava-Sava Bay, Vanua Levu, 4 fathoms ; 

 Vuna Point, Taviuni, between tide-marks ; Mango Island, fringing reefs ; Rambe Island, 

 between tide-marks ; Loma-Loma, in shore-sand ; Lufi-Lufi ; Upolu, reef and shore- 

 pools. 



This is perhaps the most abundant of the species met with in these gatherings, 

 occurring more or less plentifully in almost all. 



Loxoconcha avellana, G. S. Brady. 



Loxoconcha avellana, Brady, " Ostracoda of Challenger Expedition," p. 117, pi. xxviii. fig. 1 a-f. 

 Habitat. — Port of Noumea, 3-6 fathoms. 



Loxoconcha honoluliensis, G. S. Brady. 



Loxoconcha honoluliensis, Brady, "Ostracoda of Challenger Expedition," p. 117, pi. xxviii. fig. 6 

 a-f 

 Habitat. — Noumea, in shore-sand, and dredged in 2-6 fathoms ; Suva, mud-flats and 

 pools inside reef ; Apia and Lufi-Lufi, Upolu, reef and shore-pools. 



Loxoconcha australis, G. S. Brady. 



Loxoconcha australis, Brady, " Ostracoda of Challenger Expedition," p. 119, pi. xxviii. fig. 5 a-f 

 and pi. xxix. fig. 3 a-d. 

 Habitat. — Noumea, in shore-sand, and dredged in 2-6 fathoms. 



Loxoconcha fumicom, G. S. Brady. 



Loxoconcha pumicosa, Brady, " Ostracoda of Challenger Expedition," p. 118, pi. xxviii. fig. 2 a-d. 



Habitat. — Noumea, in shore-sand, and dredged in 2-6 fathoms; Suva, inside reef; 

 Vuna Point, Taviuni, between tide-marks ; Apia and Lufi-Lufi, Upolu, reef and shore- 

 pools. 



Loxoconcha alata, G. S. Brady. 



Loxoconcha alata, Brady, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. ii. (1868) p. 223, pi. xiv. figs. 

 8-1 3 (not Loxoconcha alata of the " Challenger " Report, which is Loxoconcha gibbera, Brady). 



Habitat. — Noumea, in shore-sand near Artillery Point ; Sava-Sava Bay, Vanua Levu, 

 4 fathoms. 



Loxoconcha anomala, G. S. Brady. 



Loxoconcha anomala, Brady, "Ostracoda of Challenger Expedition," p. 123, pi. xxvii. fig. 5 a-d. 

 Habitat. — Port of Noumea, 3-6 fathoms ; Levuka, between tide-marks. 



Loxoconcha dorso-tuberculata, G. S. Brady. 



Normania dorso-tuberculata, Brady, Trans. Zool. Soc, vol. v. p. 383, pi. lxi. figs. 14 a-g. 

 Habitat. — Suva, mud-flats ; Levuka, between tide-marks ; Vuna Point, Taviuni, 

 between tide-marks ; Mango Island, fringing reef ; Loma-Loma, in shore-sand. 



