. 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. THE MOLMJSCA—HEDLKY. 413 together constituting a nm on ite tip. On the next whorl, which is also tabulate, ihe longitudinal sculpture almost disappears and spiral lyraj arise. Subsequently these latter are cancellated by a reappearance of the longitudinal ribs. Aperture oval with a broad and reflected columella, no varix. Type Rissoa fiyrrhacme, Melvill <k Standen. Obtortio pyrrhacme, Melvill <k Standen.
. 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. THE MOLMJSCA—HEDLKY. 413 together constituting a nm on ite tip. On the next whorl, which is also tabulate, ihe longitudinal sculpture almost disappears and spiral lyraj arise. Subsequently these latter are cancellated by a reappearance of the longitudinal ribs. Aperture oval with a broad and reflected columella, no varix. Type Rissoa fiyrrhacme, Melvill <k Standen. Obtortio pyrrhacme, Melvill <k Standen. Fig. 6. Melvill & Standen, Journ. Conch., viii., 1896, p. 310, pi. xi., fig. 70. These authors describe from Lifu, Loyalty Islands : " A pure white ochre tipped shell, whorls eight or nine, much swollen, longitudinally ribbed, spirally closely sulcate, aperture round, lip simple, a little ; This account is illustrated by a figure too small to give details of sculpture, aperture or apex. To identify a species from such data is a little hazardous, but the brown point to the white shell is a peculiar feature which leads me to see in "Rissoa pyrrhacme" a common New Caledonian shell, long known to the local collectors under the, doubtless erroneous, name of "Fenella pupoides, ;* I have collected this at Panie, New Caledonia, a day's sail from Lifu, whence Melvill and Standen derived Rissoa pyrrhacme. Among shell sand on the lagoon beach of Funafuti I gathered a dozen specimens specifically in- separable from the Panie shells which I thus identified. They are smaller than Melvill and Standen's specimens, being barely four milli- metres in length, whereas theirs are six, the tips, unlike my Panie examples, are faintly and barely touched with colour, as if singed by fire. In contour they exhibit much variety ; two examples are drawn to the same scale to illustrate diversity of proportion, perhaps a sexual feature. The apex, which I hold
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