. The atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group: its zoology, botany, ethnology, and general structure based on collections made by Mrs. Charles Hedley, of the Australian museum, Sydney, N. S. W. 458 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. Represented in this Museum from Port Curtis, Queensland, and New Caledonia. Murex adustus, Lamarck. Tryon, Man. Conch., ii., 1880, p. 90, pi. xv, figs. 148, 149 ; pi. xxiv., figs. 210-212 ; pi. xxv., fig. 217. Common in shallow water in the lagoon of Funafuti. Noted from Lifu by Melvill and Standen, and represented in this Museum from New Caledonia. Murex funafutiensis, sp. nov. (Fig. 35). S
. The atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group: its zoology, botany, ethnology, and general structure based on collections made by Mrs. Charles Hedley, of the Australian museum, Sydney, N. S. W. 458 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. Represented in this Museum from Port Curtis, Queensland, and New Caledonia. Murex adustus, Lamarck. Tryon, Man. Conch., ii., 1880, p. 90, pi. xv, figs. 148, 149 ; pi. xxiv., figs. 210-212 ; pi. xxv., fig. 217. Common in shallow water in the lagoon of Funafuti. Noted from Lifu by Melvill and Standen, and represented in this Museum from New Caledonia. Murex funafutiensis, sp. nov. (Fig. 35). Shell small, biconical. Colour ochra- ceous buff, banded with chocolate, interior of aperture pale lilac. Whorls seven, sculptured each with seven pro- minent varices, which mount the spire continuously and obliquely. On the spire each varix presents a hollow spine above a blunt tubercle. Between and parallel to the varices are a series of imbricating lamella?. Five spiral ridges run round the shoulder of the shell, and undulate both the blades and the interstices of the varices. The lamella? are likewise microscopically beaded by minute spiral threads. The aperture is oblique, ovate, choked by an inner tuberculate ridge, and by the great development of the columella; the latter is arched, deeply obliquely enter- ing, anteriorly with two incipient tubercles, and truncate below. Canal short, open, and recurved ; above it are two series of disused canals, corresponding to the ultimate and penultimate varices. Length 9, breadth 5 mm. One specimen, taken by tangles, at a depth of forty to eighty fathoms, on the western slope of Funafuti. This species approaches nearest to Murex nuclea, Reeve,* which it resembles both in colour and form. Judging from his account of that species, it differs by being just half the size, by having seven whorls instead of five, with seven varices apiece instead of six, and especially by being longer in proportion to breadth than the Philippine shell is.
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