. 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. 482 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. Tryon quotes this from Fiji, and Melvill and Standen from Lifu. Schmeltz mentions it from Tahiti and Upolu, Samoa.* Specimens from the New Hebrides are in the possession of this Museum. SoLIDULA SULCATA, GmpMn. Pilsbry, Man. Conch., xv, 1893, p. 143, pi. xxa, figs. 39, 46, 47, 48. Several specimens from the lagoon beach. This abundant, variable and widespread species has been reported from Q
. 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. 482 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. Tryon quotes this from Fiji, and Melvill and Standen from Lifu. Schmeltz mentions it from Tahiti and Upolu, Samoa.* Specimens from the New Hebrides are in the possession of this Museum. SoLIDULA SULCATA, GmpMn. Pilsbry, Man. Conch., xv, 1893, p. 143, pi. xxa, figs. 39, 46, 47, 48. Several specimens from the lagoon beach. This abundant, variable and widespread species has been reported from Queensland and New Caledonia by Brazier, and from Tahiti by Pilsbry. It is represented in the Museum Collection from Guam in the Ladrones and from Aneiteum in the New Hebrides. Tornatina voluta, Quoy & Gaimard. Pilsbry, Man. Conch., xv., 1893, p. 195, pi. xxii., figs. 29, 30, 31. Abundant on the lagoon beach. Taken originally at Guam in the Ladrones by the " Astrolabe," it was afterwards found in Torres Straits by the " Chevert" and in Fiji by the " ; Melvill and Standen note it from the Loyalty Islands, and I have myself collected it at Noumea, New Caledonia. Torvatina hadfieldi, Melvill & Standen. Melvill & Standen, Journ. Conch., viii., 1896, p. 314 ; pi. xi., fig. 80. Some broken specimens from the lagoon beach appear to belong to this species, which Melvill and Standen describe from Lifu, and which I have also taken at Panie, New Caledonia. WAUGHIANA, Sp. nOV. (Fig. 44). Shell subcylindrical, swollen below, sharply truncated above, produced and rounded an- teriorly. Colour porcelain white, glossy. Sculpture—longitudinal, irregularly spaced ribs traverse the whole shell, anteriorly they are weak threads, posteriorly they wax stouter and form tubercles as they obliquely mount the vertex. Between these the shell is closely girt by about forty spiral grooves and their complementary ridges. Whorls four, the earlier a
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